Re: Does anyone use git-notes?

Scott Chacon [off-list ref] writes:

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 have a custom post-applypatch hook (see my "todo" branch) enabled and
then use the amlook script (again, see my "todo" branch) script to inspect
the corresponding notes tree.

After applying a received patch e-mail, the result is annotated with
enough information to identify which message it came from by the hook.
When I am scouring the mailing list backlog to see if I have missed
something interesting (sometimes I find interest in a topic that I thought
totally uninteresting earlier), the amlook script is used to see if the
patch has been already applied.

Looking through millions of notes this way won't scale (iow, amlook is a
bad example of using this feature, as the notes tree is used as a database
index in the wrong direction), by the way, so you may probably not want to
use it as a good example.