Re: Q. about usage of notes

On Tuesday 31 August 2010, Stefan Naewe wrote:

On 8/31/2010 11:07 AM, Johan Herland wrote:

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On Tuesday 31 August 2010, Stefan Naewe wrote:

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And why does 'git remove' do that repetetively (is that even a
word...?), i.e. 'git add -m"Note" ; git remove; git remove; git
remove; git remove' creates 5 commit objects under
'refs/notes/commits' Is that the intended behaviour ?

Yes, this is the intended behaviour. Otherwise you would need a
separate notes index where you could stage notes changes (with git
notes add/remove), and then later commit those notes changes with
(the imaginary) git notes commit. This was deemed too
cumbersome/complicated, and we settled for the current approach
instead.

But if I do:

$ touch file ; git add file ; git commit -m"add file"

and then

$ for n in 1 2 3; do git rm file; git commit -m"rm file"; done

I get:

rm 'file'
[master 5b24511] rm file
 0 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 file
fatal: pathspec 'file' did not match any files
# On branch master
nothing to commit (working directory clean)
fatal: pathspec 'file' did not match any files
# On branch master
nothing to commit (working directory clean)

I don't get 4 commits. That's the part I don't understand :-(

Just to be clear:

Of course I do understand why I don't get 4 commits here - I just
don't understand why I get a commit for every 'git notes remove' even
if there's nothing to remove.

Ah, that would be a bug in 'git notes remove'. Patch coming soon.

And to delete the 'notes branch' I can only use 'git update-ref' ?!

Yes, 'git update-ref -d refs/notes/foo' will delete the "foo" notes 
branch.


...Johan

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