feature-request: git notes copy --to <ref>

Hello,

I'm playing around with git-notes and want to share some of my notes with my co-workers. We have a central repository for our various topic branches and want to track upstream inclusion in git-notes. So we have to share our notes branch somehow.

The workflow I think makes sense here is (untested):

	### hack hack, add notes bla blub
	### -> nice topic branch with some notes

	git fetch serverrepo refs/notes/commits:refs/notes/servercommits
	git notes merge refs/notes/servercommits
	git rev-list origin/master.. | awk '{print $1 " " $1}' | git notes copy --to refs/notes/servercommits --stdin
	git push serverrepo refs/notes/servercommits:refs/notes/commits

Then maybe:

	git notes merge refs/notes/servercommits

again.

The idea here is to only include notes in refs/notes/servercommits that are relevant for my coworkers and not all intermediate notes that were created during development or while working on other branches.

Does this make sense? Do you have better ideas or suggestions how to improve the workflow?

The only problem now is that git notes copy doesn't take a --to parameter. Maybe there is a volunteer to implement it? Then I'd volunteer to test it :-)

Best regards Uwe

Hello again,

On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 10:03:34PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:

I have implemented something now to copy notes to another branch. Here is it for reference:

--->8--- #! /bin/sh

set -e

. git-sh-setup

# for now the remote notes rev must be a ref below refs/notes # see id:20140220153045.GI6988@pengutronix.de for the respective plea. remote_notes="refs/notes/servercommits" local_notes="$(git notes get-ref)"

remote_notes_ref=$(git rev-parse --verify "$remote_notes^{commit}")

tmpfile=$(mktemp) trap "rm \"$tmpfile\"" EXIT

git rev-list "$@" | sed 's/^/100644 blob [0-9a-f]{40}\t/' > $tmpfile

GIT_DIR=$(git rev-parse --git-dir)

GIT_INDEX_FILE="$GIT_DIR/index-rnotes" git read-tree "$remote_notes" git ls-tree "$local_notes" | grep -E -f "$tmpfile" | GIT_INDEX_FILE="$GIT_DIR/index-rnotes" git update-index --index-info

tree=$(GIT_INDEX_FILE="$GIT_DIR/index-rnotes" git write-tree)

if test "x$tree" = "x$(git rev-parse "$remote_notes_ref^{tree}")"; then
	echo "empty commit"
	exit 0
fi

commit=$(git commit-tree "$tree" -p "$remote_notes_ref" << EOF Notes added by 'git notes-copy'

source notes: $(git rev-parse $local_notes) EOF )

git update-ref "$remote_notes" $commit $remote_notes_ref --->8---

It still has some edges, but I think it will do for me. Enhancements welcome.

Best regards Uwe