From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael J Gruber Subject: Re: Idea: "git format-patch" should get more information out of git Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:41:01 +0200 Message-ID: <4E5D048D.4010902@drmicha.warpmail.net> References: <4E587CC0.4090508@alum.mit.edu> <7vippiaduw.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <7v1uw69h96.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20110829185546.GD756@sigill.intra.peff.net> <4E5CD5B9.80306@drmicha.warpmail.net> <20110830152217.GA13022@sigill.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Junio C Hamano , Michael Haggerty , git@vger.kernel.org, Johan Herland , Jonathan Nieder To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Aug 30 17:41:16 2011 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 1QyQR6-0006Ih-Jq for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:41:12 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755465Ab1H3PlG (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:41:06 -0400 Received: from out3.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.27]:56428 "EHLO out3.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755210Ab1H3PlF (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:41:05 -0400 Received: from compute5.internal (compute5.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.45]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46A6120DAB; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:41:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute5.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:41:04 -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=K4bBEUD+C2gK9vqAMDgzc+ 4Z6vk=; b=E4RHH0VUGx7/wHUUXdSY9r6bdPnM3DhDtf/6GwT1DOA7SedH/2Nf8X mprwiWVUfqYWaq8sgYOCM5xyqc9Sp8J3apRuBUa8z8PRGpYOf25rEonwdtV9jxZN FgzEKCLMK2HhMWrNjKZjK1BbEqnxSbCMGRBQWxtpiQfx7c1SH8hUg= X-Sasl-enc: 9X1ULDz8/IEECTOXQtm4+DlZ2p7PCjp5v5yDPsn+ssk+ 1314718863 Received: from localhost.localdomain (whitehead.math.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.44.62]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 36DCFAC02FF; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:41:03 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:6.0) Gecko/20110816 Thunderbird/6.0 In-Reply-To: <20110830152217.GA13022@sigill.intra.peff.net> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jeff King venit, vidit, dixit 30.08.2011 17:22: > On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 02:21:13PM +0200, Michael J Gruber wrote: ... >> Anyways, notes survive rebase etc. > > You still have to manually configure: > > git config notes.rewriteRef refs/notes/commits > > Perhaps that is something that should be changed. Right, I've done that quite a while ago and forgot. >> and at format-patch time you can decide whether you want to include >> them or not (with my patch). > > Yeah. Don't get me wrong, I think putting "---" notes into git-notes is > way more flexible. It's just that it's also more complex, and > unnecessarily so for many use cases. > > We have some patches to hide that complexity, but I was at one point > wondering if all of the complexity was worthwhile. But as I mentioned > above, if you want to build anything more complex than a pure-patch > workflow, the simple solution breaks down. So it probably is worth > pursuing. Reminds me of the ref namespace restructuring which could help sharing notes... Oh, lots to do before git 3.0! Michael