Re: git notes: notes

[Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>]

On Wednesday 20 January 2010, Joey Hess wrote:
> Johan Herland wrote:
> > > PS, Has anyone thought about using notes to warn bisect away from
> > > commits that are known to be unbuildable or otherwise cause bisection
> > > trouble?
> >
> > No, I haven't thought of that specific use case. Great idea! :)
> 
> Only problem I see with doing it is it might be too easy to overwrite
> such a note with git notes edit -m

Well, you would have to run "git notes edit -m" with core.notesRef or 
$GIT_NOTES_REF set to the notes ref where bisect information is stored (e.g. 
"refs/notes/bisect").

In any case, I would not use "git notes" to maintain the bisect hints. 
Rather, I'd add subcommands to "git bisect" that would take care of 
maintaining the notes tree @ "refs/notes/bisect". Much more user-friendly 
than telling the user to write their own bisect-notes by hand.

> Did you consider having -m append a line to an existing note?

Hmm. Not really. The "git notes" porcelain was originally written by Dscho, 
and my builtin-ification of it (currently in 'pu') preserves the original 
semantics of "git notes edit -m". It might make sense to change the 
defaults; what do you think, Dscho?


Have fun! :)

...Johan

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