Re: Does anyone use git-notes?

Scott Chacon 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 run a cronjob that downloads mail from gmane and fetches git.git,
then attempts to correlate mail with commits.  The results are at

  git://repo.or.cz/git/trast.git notes/terse notes/full

I have previously posted about this at e.g.

  http://mid.gmane.org/200902091508.11460.trast@student.ethz.ch
  http://mid.gmane.org/201003042321.36240.trast@student.ethz.ch

though I should point out that it no longer tries to apply the patches
as outlined in the first post; this was simply way too expensive.


I also use it when heavily editing a patch series to tack little
reminders on my fixup patches.  I have

  $ git config alias.fixup
  !sh -c 'r=$1; git commit -m"fixup! $(git log -1 --pretty=%s $r)"' -

so I usually do

  # hack
  git add -p
  git fixup HEAD~3
  git notes add -m 'fix foo'

which combined with notes.rewriteRef=refs/notes/* (and
notes.rewriteMode left at the default of 'concatenate') means that I
end up having a little list of reminders what changed since the last
revisions.  I then simply clear them out before starting a new round.

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch