This is already done refs/notes/commits (or any other notes ref) is a normal commit and so any edits to the notes are thus tracked in the normal way. To see this add a note, then use: gitk notes/commits. Regards, jon. On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 10:50 PM, Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello all, > > ok, this may sound a little odd especially with the 'notes vs > metadata' thread going on, but I was wondering: do we store _any_ kind > of metadata _about_ the notes themselves? If I'm reading the code > correctly, we have neither author nor date information about the notes > themselves, so we don't know who added them or when. Is it too late to > suggest that this kind of metadata be added to notes? Making them > full-blown commit-style objects is probalby overengineered and wrong > under many points of view (not to mention probably incompatible with > current storage), but maybe we can set up a convention that notes > SHOULD be in pseudo-mbox format? This would mean that when a note is > created, the template starts with a 'From ' line including the user's > name & email and note creation date; when editing, the note is again > augmented with the new author name email and date. Of course the users > are then free do expunge the From lines if they don't want it (just > commenting it would be enough, of course). How does the idea sound? > > -- > Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta > -- > 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 > -- 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