Re: Idea: "git format-patch" should get more information out of git

Jeff King venit, vidit, dixit 30.08.2011 17:22:

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 02:21:13PM +0200, Michael J Gruber wrote:

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Anyways, notes survive rebase etc.

You still have to manually configure:

  git config notes.rewriteRef refs/notes/commits

Perhaps that is something that should be changed.

Right, I've done that quite a while ago and forgot.

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and at format-patch time you can decide whether you want to include
them or not (with my patch).

Yeah. Don't get me wrong, I think putting "---" notes into git-notes is
way more flexible. It's just that it's also more complex, and
unnecessarily so for many use cases.

We have some patches to hide that complexity, but I was at one point
wondering if all of the complexity was worthwhile. But as I mentioned
above, if you want to build anything more complex than a pure-patch
workflow, the simple solution breaks down. So it probably is worth
pursuing.

Reminds me of the ref namespace restructuring which could help sharing
notes... Oh, lots to do before git 3.0!

Michael