Kevin Ballard <kevin@xxxxxx> writes: > I’ve started using notes recently, and I have notes.rewriteRef set so that > when I rebase, my notes will be kept. Unfortunately, it turns out that if a > rebase deletes my local commit because it already exists in upstream, it > doesn’t copy the note to the upstream commit. It seems perfectly reasonable to > me to expect the note to be copied to the upstream commit, as it represents > the same change. That would cut both ways, depending on the use case. I suspect that those who use notes as remainder of what are still to be sent out would appreciate the current behaviour. > One complication I can see is when my local commit is deleted not because it > exists upstream, but because it ends up being an empty commit due to the > changes existing across multiple upstream commits. In this case I see no > alternative but to have the note disappear. But I think that's acceptable. Oh, no question about that. > Another potential issues is if the commit exists upstream, but the surrounding > context has changed enough that it contains a different patch-id. In this > case, I would want Git to take the extra effort to correlate the upstream > commit with my local one (it has the same message, modulo any Signed-Off-By > lines, the same authorship info, and all the - and + lines in the diff are > identical). That would be an orthogonal improvement, I would think. Such a smarter "patch-id may mistake it, but it is a moral equivalent" detection would not only be useful for copying notes, but also for skipping the commit from getting replayed in the first place, no? > On a semi-related note, I don't see why Git should be warning about > notes.displayRef evaluating to a reference that doesn't exist. It doesn't > exist because I haven't created any notes for that ref in this repository yet. > But that doesn't mean I won't be creating them eventually, and when I do I > want them to be displayed. That also cuts both ways. I think a warning is primarily to let those who mistyped the refname take notice. -- 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