Re: Does anyone use git-notes?

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 20:15, Scott Chacon [off-list ref] 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