From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: [PATCH] notes: mention --notes in more places Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 15:05:07 -0400 Message-ID: <20121017190507.GA17648@sigill.intra.peff.net> References: <1350443975-19935-1-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com> <20121017055136.GA12301@sigill.intra.peff.net> <507EB310.8020904@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Eric Blake X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Oct 17 21:05:35 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TOYvq-0006DI-92 for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Oct 2012 21:05:30 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757685Ab2JQTFQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Oct 2012 15:05:16 -0400 Received: from 75-15-5-89.uvs.iplsin.sbcglobal.net ([75.15.5.89]:56271 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757676Ab2JQTFP (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Oct 2012 15:05:15 -0400 Received: (qmail 29152 invoked by uid 107); 17 Oct 2012 19:05:49 -0000 Received: from sigill.intra.peff.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.7) (smtp-auth username relayok, mechanism cram-md5) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.84) with ESMTPA; Wed, 17 Oct 2012 15:05:49 -0400 Received: by sigill.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 17 Oct 2012 15:05:07 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <507EB310.8020904@redhat.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 07:30:56AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > > We've talked about it several times, but it's never happened (probably > > because most people don't actually use notes). > > And people (like me) don't use notes because they aren't documented. > Catch-22, so we have to start somewhere. Oh, I definitely agree your patch is the right direction. I was just explaining why it hasn't happened, even though people think it's a good idea. > I'll submit a v2 with the non-controversial edits, and spend some time > trying to figure out how to isolate the portion of pretty-options.txt > that is relevant to format-patch. If it's easy enough, I can also > consider using --- instead of Notes: as the separator when using > format-patch. Hmm. After digging in the archive, it seems we (including both you and me!) have discussed this several times, and there are even some patches floating around. Maybe one of them would be a good starting point for your submission (I did not read carefully over all of the arguments for each): Patch from Thomas, Feb 2010: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/139919/focus=140818 Discussion between us, Dec 2010: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/163141 Patch from Michael, Apr 2011: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/172079 -Peff