Re: Does anyone use git-notes?

[Tor Arntsen <tor@spacetec.no>]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 20:15, Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to write a post on how to use them, but I'm a bit
> confused as to how people actually use them on a day to day basis.  I
> appears to me in trying to work out a flow for them that the lack of
> an ability to merge them makes them very difficult to use for anything
> practical.  Can someone share with me how they use them and what the
> cycle is?

I use Notes in a very simplistic way. For example, with an emulator
I'm writing I have two or three ways of using git-notes:
1: I commit fixes and changes with a commit message describing the
fix. Later I may find out that the fix made a couple more programs of
the set I have run in the emulator, so I add a note to the commit
saying 'This change makes X and Y work'.
2: I add test cases to the instruction validator I wrote for the
emulator, if the test currently fails I say so in the commit message.
At some later point I may commit a fix that lets the test pass, then I
go back to the original commit message (which said the test currently
failed) and add a note saying 'Fixed by [commit] nnnnnnn'.
3: Occasionally I just use notes as a reminder. If a commit adds a new
feature I may later (after using the feature) add a 'todo'-note about
what improvements I should add.

One use case I have thought of for the company case is to add notes to
a release commit with information that wasn't  or couldn't be added at
the time of the commit, e.g. a list of problem reports closed by the
release.  But I haven't actually figured out how I can get Notes
transferred over a pull yet.. although I haven't tried since 1.7.0.

-Tor