Re: notes metadata?

[Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>]

On Sunday 07 February 2010, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> ok, this may sound a little odd especially with the 'notes vs
> metadata' thread going on, but I was wondering: do we store _any_ kind
> of metadata _about_ the notes themselves? If I'm reading the code
> correctly, we have neither author nor date information about the notes
> themselves, so we don't know who added them or when. Is it too late to
> suggest that this kind of metadata be added to notes? Making them
> full-blown commit-style objects is probalby overengineered and wrong
> under many points of view (not to mention probably incompatible with
> current storage), but maybe we can set up a convention that notes
> SHOULD be in pseudo-mbox format? This would mean that when a note is
> created, the template starts with a 'From ' line including the user's
> name &  email and note creation date; when editing, the note is again
> augmented with the new author name email and date. Of course the users
> are then free do expunge the From lines if they don't want it (just
> commenting it would be enough, of course). How does the idea sound?

NAK

Notes are stored in a notes tree that is changed by making commits on the 
notes ref (see commit_notes() in builtin-notes.c in 'pu'). The commits on 
the notes ref are regular commits with the usual commit metadata (author, 
date, etc.), so if you're interested in who/when a given note was written, 
you can simply point 'git (gui) blame' at the notes tree.


...Johan

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