From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
To: Tor Arntsen <tor@spacetec.no>
Cc: knittl <knittl89@googlemail.com>,
"John S. Urban" <urbanjost@comcast.net>, <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Lost association between TAGS and COMMITs when rebased a git(1) repository
Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2011 20:43:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201109042043.01159.trast@student.ethz.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABNEGjyXLnSvjhBewNDsjW=rthRh0HY+KgC05vPNPu5QCaAgXQ@mail.gmail.com>
Tor Arntsen wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 4:30 PM, knittl <knittl89@googlemail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 3:32 AM, John S. Urban <urbanjost@comcast.net> wrote:
> > > With my first use of git(1) I created a small project with about 200
> > > "commits". When this was complete, I needed to label each commit with
> > > information pointing it to a section of a document. I used tags for this.
> >
> > Use git notes[1] to attach additional info to existing commits. Git
> > notes will by default be copied when using git rebase or git commit
> > --amend (cf. notes.rewrite.<command> config)
>
> Is that true? I've always lost the notes when rebasing. I just tried
> that again now (1.7.5.4), and after a rebase the notes attached to any
> commit that was rebased just disappeared. I've always had to hunt down
> and re-create the notes. It would indeed be much more convenient if
> the notes would tag along.
Yes, that support has been present since 1.7.1, but it's not enabled
by default: you need to configure notes.rewriteRef.
--
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-04 18:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-04 1:32 Lost association between TAGS and COMMITs when rebased a git(1) repository John S. Urban
2011-09-04 10:02 ` PJ Weisberg
2011-09-04 13:40 ` Michael Witten
2011-09-04 14:03 ` Michael Witten
[not found] ` <CA+sFfMcMgPDyCi6SCS=Sc4XFrug_Ee7vbmBBkmkwfwwpXg8yCg@mail.gmail.com>
2011-09-04 14:38 ` Michael Witten
2011-09-04 17:20 ` Philip Oakley
2011-09-04 18:15 ` knittl
2011-09-04 14:30 ` knittl
2011-09-04 14:43 ` Michael Witten
2011-09-04 15:39 ` Jakub Narebski
2011-09-04 18:16 ` Tor Arntsen
2011-09-04 18:43 ` Thomas Rast [this message]
2011-09-04 19:11 ` Tor Arntsen
2011-09-04 20:18 ` John S. Urban
2011-09-04 20:28 ` [PATCH] Documentation: "on for all" configuration of notes.rewriteRef Thomas Rast
2011-09-04 20:43 ` Tor Arntsen
2011-09-07 21:23 ` Jeff King
2011-09-07 21:29 ` Thomas Rast
2011-09-07 21:35 ` Jeff King
[not found] ` <CACx-yZ1Ce3x=ZSdm5iY3JqYjVGVs5uPnb12-tMJP7zWsGuMK_Q@mail.gmail.com>
2011-09-04 16:40 ` Lost association between TAGS and COMMITs when rebased a git(1) repository John S. Urban
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