From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joshua Jensen Subject: Re: Does anyone use git-notes? Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:40:21 -0600 Message-ID: <4C756395.6020103@workspacewhiz.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git list To: Scott Chacon X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Aug 25 20:40:30 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OoKti-00072y-9y for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:40:30 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751660Ab0HYSkZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:40:25 -0400 Received: from hsmail.qwknetllc.com ([208.71.137.138]:35124 "EHLO hsmail.qwknetllc.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751392Ab0HYSkX (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:40:23 -0400 Received: (qmail 14446 invoked by uid 399); 25 Aug 2010 12:40:23 -0600 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.2?) (jjensen@workspacewhiz.com@75.196.155.152) by hsmail.qwknetllc.com with ESMTPAM; 25 Aug 2010 12:40:23 -0600 X-Originating-IP: 75.196.155.152 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.2 In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: ----- Original Message ----- From: Scott Chacon Date: 8/25/2010 12:15 PM > I would like to write a post on how to use them, but I'm a bit > confused as to how people actually use them on a day to day basis. I > appears to me in trying to work out a flow for them that the lack of > an ability to merge them makes them very difficult to use for anything > practical. Can someone share with me how they use them and what the > cycle is? I do. I use them to automatically store a matching Perforce revision number for a given Git commit. Only the server assigns them due to the merging issues. I also change the ref, so they read as p4notes. It irks me, though, that they show in the gitk --all view. ARGH! Josh