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Looks like the "notes" functionality is turning into something quite useful, will be interesting to see if people start to use it in the future.
by bjackman 11y ago
Looks like the "notes" functionality is turning into something quite useful, will be interesting to see if people start to use it in the future.
- ioquatix 11y agoWhat is the notes functionality?
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- masklinn 11y agoThe ability to associate metadata to a commit without editing the commit itself.
- d0lph 11y agoHad not heard of these, interesting ... "A typical use of notes is to supplement a commit message without changing the commit itself. Notes can be shown by git log along with the original commit message. To distinguish these notes from the message stored in the commit object, the notes are indented like the message, after an unindented line saying "Notes (<refname>):" (or "Notes:" for refs/notes/commits)." (https://git-scm.com/docs/git-notes https://git-scm.com/docs/git-notes)
- radarsat1 11y agoCool, I didn't know about it. Does github (or another UI) integrate this somehow? Could be very useful. In particular being able to take notes about the purpose/goals of a branch strikes me as useful, something I wanted a long time ago.
- sanqui 11y agoLooks like GitHub used to support Notes, but they removed the functionality in 2014. https://github.com/blog/707-git-notes-display https://github.com/blog/707-git-notes-display
- bjackman 11y agoYeah pretty much nobody uses them because they're half-baked from a UI perspective. This looks like progress (getting rid of the arbitrary restriction to refs/notes), but there may be other things lacking still.
- notatoad 11y agoit would be really amazing if web services like GitHub and Bitbucket could implement their commit comment features as git-notes so you could see team members' comments offline after a pull, just using git-log rather than having to sign into the website.