On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 04:02:49AM +0300, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 12:25 AM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >> It is spelled: > >> > >> git notes add -m <comment> SHA1 > > > > Cool! > > Don't use them for anything global. > > Use them for local codeflow, but don't expect them to be distributed. > It's a separate "flow", and while it *can* be distributed, it's not > going to be for the kernel, for example. So no, don't start using this > to ack things, because the acks *will* get lost. How about git commit --allow-empty, with "belated ACK for <commit> Acked-by: <...> " as commit message? I mean, that ought to work and propagate sanely, but I'm really not sure if that's something in a good taste and should be allowed as a common practice... -- 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