From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael J Gruber Subject: Re: Does anyone use git-notes? Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 10:09:27 +0200 Message-ID: <4C762137.1090801@drmicha.warpmail.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git list To: Scott Chacon X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Aug 26 10:09:38 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 1OoXWj-0002AM-Lj for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Aug 2010 10:09:38 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752903Ab0HZIJa (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2010 04:09:30 -0400 Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:42132 "EHLO out1.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752363Ab0HZIJ2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2010 04:09:28 -0400 Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D508351; Thu, 26 Aug 2010 04:09:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 26 Aug 2010 04:09:28 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=smtpout; bh=apXEjt+MNVZlLAiSUwNkn2Fms0M=; b=c+/fuVv0gg4uvVC8AKDVx5chByzvdLe2owiWARAvi+22jhnE1TbqOUb60c6tvs92bzGKci25L0xbP6BRj/insfAxE3k8Z/tk6Z6HCN67/ZILEZbJBQ9ZV634rAmubri5JPL2CCFpc3mK5hornotOQ/bNUVOfsx/dJrotUEg1ohk= X-Sasl-enc: dDo1A7sos3fNdrzET0i2BGIUZ2cOwuSfrs8Ats++kddY 1282810167 Received: from localhost.localdomain (heawood.math.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.44.4]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4EA8F40201B; Thu, 26 Aug 2010 04:09:27 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100806 Fedora/3.1.2-1.fc13 Lightning/1.0b2pre 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: Scott Chacon venit, vidit, dixit 25.08.2010 20:15: > 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 use it to store the patch comments (the part that goes after the "---", before the diff) along with my commits so that I have them in my git.git tree, not only in my mbox. This makes it also easier to redo a patch and keep the comment when regenerating the patch e-mail with format-patch. (I don't have a good solution for the cover letter yet.) Michael