From: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
To: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-notes.txt: clarify -C vs. copy and -F
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 11:36:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201103291136.42830.johan@herland.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <09668994f10284cfa5243789a627dce8c2325bc6.1301388217.git.git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
On Tuesday 29 March 2011, Michael J Gruber wrote:
> The current description of '-C' together with the analogy to 'git
> commit -C' can lead to the wrong conclusion that '-C' copies notes
> between objects. Make this clearer by rewording and pointing to
> 'copy'.
>
> The example for attaching binary notes with 'git hash-object'
> followed by 'git notes add -C' immediately raises the question: "Why
> not use 'git notes add -F'?". Answer it (the latter is not
> binary-safe).
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Acked-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
...Johan
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-29 8:45 [PATCH] git-notes.txt: clarify -C vs. copy and -F Michael J Gruber
2011-03-29 9:36 ` Johan Herland [this message]
2011-03-29 18:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-03-29 18:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-03-29 18:36 ` Michael J Gruber
2011-03-29 19:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-03-29 19:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-08-25 10:26 ` Michael J Gruber
2011-08-25 18:50 ` Johan Herland
2011-03-30 0:02 ` [RFC/PATCH] Make "git notes add" more user-friendly when there are existing notes Johan Herland
2011-03-30 6:54 ` Michael J Gruber
2011-03-30 9:59 ` Johan Herland
2011-04-04 11:35 ` Lasse Makholm
2011-04-04 12:54 ` Michael J Gruber
2011-03-30 19:32 ` Junio C Hamano
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