# [Bug?] git notes are not copied during rebase

2 messages from 2016-11-16 to 2016-11-17. Participants: Norbert Kiesel, SZEDER Gábor.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/44502

## Norbert Kiesel, 2016-11-16 23:38

Subject: [Bug?] git notes are not copied during rebase
Message-ID: <CAM+g_NvFhyReNREpTYKbXKm=8QmSH1tnrTCyFm9HusOnfAbCCA@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAM%2Bg_NvFhyReNREpTYKbXKm%3D8QmSH1tnrTCyFm9HusOnfAbCCA%40mail.gmail.com

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Hi,

I am currently a heavy user of rebasing and noticed that my notes
don't get correctly applied, even if notes.rewrite.rebase is set
explicitly to true (though manual says that is the default).

Below is a use case that shows that a commit on a branch got rebased,
but the note was not copied to the new commit.

% mkdir notes
% cd notes
% git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/notes/.git/
% date
% git add a
% git commit -m c1
[master (root-commit) 2e24a91] c1
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
 create mode 100644 a
% git checkout -b mybranch
Switched to a new branch 'mybranch'
% date
% git add b
% git commit -m c2
[mybranch 5ef9954] c2
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
 create mode 100644 b
% git notes add -m note1
% git log
commit 5ef9954 (HEAD -> mybranch)
Author: Norbert Kiesel <nkiesel@metricstream.com>
Date:   Mon Nov 14 15:48:00 2016 -0800

    c2

Notes:
    note1

commit 2e24a91 (master)
Author: Norbert Kiesel <nkiesel@metricstream.com>
Date:   Mon Nov 14 15:48:00 2016 -0800

    c1
% git notes
c39895a0948c17df2028f07c3ec0993a532edabf
5ef9954dbadddfccefe95277be5e7a995335124b
% git checkout master
Switched to branch 'master'
% date
% git commit -a -m c3
[master 1368832] c3
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
% git rebase master mybranch
First, rewinding head to replay your work on top of it...
Applying: c2
% git log
commit 8921cb7 (HEAD -> mybranch)
Author: Norbert Kiesel <nkiesel@metricstream.com>
Date:   Mon Nov 14 15:48:00 2016 -0800

    c2

commit 1368832 (master)
Author: Norbert Kiesel <nkiesel@metricstream.com>
Date:   Mon Nov 14 15:48:00 2016 -0800

    c3

commit 2e24a91
Author: Norbert Kiesel <nkiesel@metricstream.com>
Date:   Mon Nov 14 15:48:00 2016 -0800

    c1
% git notes
c39895a0948c17df2028f07c3ec0993a532edabf
5ef9954dbadddfccefe95277be5e7a995335124b

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## SZEDER Gábor, 2016-11-17 10:30

Subject: Re: [Bug?] git notes are not copied during rebase
Message-ID: <20161117103043.4835-1-szeder@ira.uka.de>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20161117103043.4835-1-szeder%40ira.uka.de
In-Reply-To: <CAM+g_NvFhyReNREpTYKbXKm=8QmSH1tnrTCyFm9HusOnfAbCCA@mail.gmail.com>

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> I am currently a heavy user of rebasing and noticed that my notes
> don't get correctly applied, even if notes.rewrite.rebase is set
> explicitly to true (though manual says that is the default).

Setting 'notes.rewrite.rebase' is, as you mentioned, not necessary,
but not sufficient either.  See here, especially the second paragraph:

   notes.rewriteRef
       When copying notes during a rewrite, specifies the (fully
       qualified) ref whose notes should be copied. May be a glob, in
       which case notes in all matching refs will be copied. You may also
       specify this configuration several times.

       Does not have a default value; you must configure this variable to
       enable note rewriting.

       Can be overridden with the GIT_NOTES_REWRITE_REF environment
       variable.

Gábor


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