Re: Commit annotations (was:: Octopus merge: unique (?) to git, but is it useful?)

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Hi,

On Tue, 3 Jun 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote:

> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> > One of the things I could imagine using git for is to have "annotation 
> > branches" for things like code review etc. They'd be a real branch in 
> > their own right and with their own history, but at the same time they 
> > could well want to point back to the "code branch" that they annotate 
> > by considering that another parent in a "non-data merge" (and yes, 
> > you'd obviously have to use a special merge strategy for things like 
> > that, but you'd likely integrate it in some "annotation tool chain" 
> > rather than anything else).
> 
> By the way, what is status of git-notes / commit annotations?  Did it got
> abandoned, on hiatus, or what?

You probably meant to Cc: me, and Linus, right?

I all but abandoned it.  It works, but I do not need it, and kind of 
waited for the guy who wanted them to chime in, so that I did not waste my 
time in vain.

IIRC it was Johan Herland, but I could be wrong.

Ciao,
Dscho

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