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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] commit notes workflow
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 10:59:59 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v4o7saqj4.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110225133056.GA1026@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Fri\, 25 Feb 2011 08\:30\:57 -0500")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> So your commit template looks like:
>
>   subject
>
>   commit message body
>   ---
>   notes data
>
>   # usual template stuff
>
> I'm curious what people think. Do others find this useful? Does it seem
> harmful?

As long as this is done only under "commit --notes", I don't think it
should hurt innocent bystanders.

> It's yet another magic format to worry about when writing a commit
> message. But you don't need to care unless you use "--notes" (and I
> would probably add a config option, since I would always want this on
> personally).

Then --no-notes would also be necessary, but I think you would get it for
free these days ;-).

> I only turn on --edit when we launch an editor. It seems somehow more
> confusing to me that "git commit -F file" should split notes out (or
> worse, "git commit -m").

So if you see -F -m and there is no --edit, you don't split out notes at
the divider?  That sounds like a sensible thing to me.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-02-25 19:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-25 13:30 [RFC/PATCH] commit notes workflow Jeff King
2011-02-25 15:58 ` Johan Herland
2011-03-01 21:59   ` Jeff King
2011-03-02  0:21     ` Johan Herland
2011-03-03  1:57       ` Sverre Rabbelier
2011-03-03  3:50         ` Junio C Hamano
2011-03-03 11:12           ` Sverre Rabbelier
2011-03-03 11:23             ` [PATCH] commit, status: #comment diff output in verbose mode Ian Ward Comfort
2011-03-03 11:25               ` Sverre Rabbelier
2011-03-07 23:39       ` [RFC/PATCH] commit notes workflow Jeff King
2011-03-07 23:39         ` [PATCH 1/2] notes: make expand_notes_ref globally accessible Jeff King
2011-03-08  8:25           ` Johan Herland
2011-03-07 23:41         ` [PATCH 2/2] commit: allow editing notes in commit message editor Jeff King
2011-03-08  9:15           ` Johan Herland
2011-03-08 12:39         ` [RFC/PATCH] commit notes workflow Michel Lespinasse
2011-03-02  7:01     ` Chris Packham
2011-03-02 12:45       ` Drew Northup
2011-03-02 16:24       ` Piotr Krukowiecki
2011-02-25 18:59 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2011-02-25 20:30 ` Drew Northup
2011-03-01 22:00   ` Jeff King
2011-03-01 22:18     ` Drew Northup
2011-03-01 22:23       ` Jeff King
2011-03-01 22:26         ` Drew Northup
2011-02-27 14:31 ` Michael J Gruber
2011-03-01 22:01   ` Jeff King
2011-03-09  8:13 ` Yann Dirson

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