Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> IOW, the code should be reading output from: >> >> GIT_NOTES_REF=$note_ref git show -s --format=%N $co{'id'} >> >> as the notes tree may not be storing notes in a flat one-level namespace >> like you are assuming. > > First, for some mechanism of deployment (IIRC Apache's mod_perl) changes > to environment variables from CGI script are not passed to invoked > commands (I guess for security reasons). I do not believe you are unable to spawn open $fd, '-|' 'sh', '-c', "GIT_NOTES_REF=$note_ref git show ..." and read from it ;-). For possible enhancement to make notes easier to use, see the other response. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html