Re: Git Notes - Search Functionality

krishna chaitanya kurnala [off-list ref] writes:

   I working on Git Notes. I want to know if there is an easy way to
obtain a list of all "namespaces"(For eg., git notes --ref=namespace
... ) with notes objects in a specific git repository. We can easily
create, edit, merge git notes with commands if we know the namespaces
and/or the sha. But, for example, Has anyone tried to search for a
string in a git notes objects for that project etc?
  The closest i can think of is using some options with git logs, for
example, git log --show-notes=*  --format="%H %N" etc.

Appreciate your time.

An easy way to list everything in refs/notes/ is

  git for-each-ref refs/notes/

but that of course won't figure out if you have more notes e.g. in
refs/remotes/origin/notes/* or some such.  I think this more general
problem can be solved only by heuristics, since the notes trees are
actually "just trees" -- the only distinction is that they have fairly
funny filenames in them.

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