On Fri, 2011-02-25 at 08:30 -0500, Jeff King wrote: > I was revising a long-ish series today, and I have been wanting to start > using "git notes" to store information on what's changed between > versions (which will eventually go after the "---" in format-patch). > 1. If we are amending, it populates the commit message not just with > the existing message, but also with a "---" divider and any notes on > the commit. > > 2. After editing the commit message, it looks for the "---" divider > and puts everything after it into a commit note (whether or not it > put in a divider in step (1), so you can add new notes, too). > > So your commit template looks like: > > subject > > commit message body > --- > notes data > > # usual template stuff > > I'm curious what people think. Do others find this useful? Does it seem > harmful? > I'm in agreement with the others that it doesn't seem like a bad idea, and likely a good one. Just one thing, can you add an end-of-note delimiter (the same thing perhaps)? I didn't spend a long time looking at the code, but I can imagine more than a few ways for this to go wrong without one. -- -Drew Northup ________________________________________________ "As opposed to vegetable or mineral error?" -John Pescatore, SANS NewsBites Vol. 12 Num. 59 -- 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