On Tuesday 03 June 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > On Tue, 3 Jun 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote: > > 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. Yes, I made the first (severely misguided) implementations [1][2] which prompted Dscho to create an alternative implementation [3]. Although Dscho's design was certainly more Git-esque than mine (keeping the notes in a (pseudo)branch instead of creating a totally separate infrastructure for note storage), at some point his efforts stalled (due to a combination of scalability problems and/or lack of interest, IIRC). I was happy to see some of this work recently resumed by Geoffrey Irving [4]. (Side note: It is funny how Geoffrey's patch-id cache can be seen as yet another instance of the reverse-mapping softref mechanism I proposed as part of the first git-notes implementation [5]) >From the initial interest in git-notes, and the sporadic requests that have been posted since its first mention, it seems that git-notes would be a useful feature for many Git users. However, neither me nor Dscho have the time/interest to keep pushing it. Maybe it's time for someone else to pick up the torch? Have fun! :) ...Johan [1]: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/46770/focus=48540 [2]: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/49052 [3]: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/52598 [4]: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/83484 [5]: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/49052/focus=49592 -- Johan Herland, <johan@xxxxxxxxxxx> www.herland.net -- 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
