Re: [OT] How to get the discussion details via notes

[Drew Northup <n1xim.email@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 5:53 AM, Peter Baumann <waste.manager@gmx.de> wrote:
> Dropping the Cc list, as this is off topic
>
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 11:05:29PM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>> Sverre Rabbelier wrote:
>>
>> > Thanks for the thorough explanation. Perhaps some of that could make
>> > it's way into the commit message?
>>
>> It's fine with me if it doesn't, since the original commit message
>> covers the basics (current behavior and intent of the change) in its
>> first two paragraphs and anyone wanting more detail can use
>>
>>       GIT_NOTES_REF=refs/remotes/charon/notes/full \
>>       git show --show-notes <commit>
>>
>> to find more details.
>
> I seem to miss something here, but I don't get it how the notes ref
> becomes magically filled with the details of this discussion.
>
> Care to explain?

If I have an email thread I'd like to store alongside a commit I'll
put that into a note, but I usually don't push that kind of thing out
to a remote repo.
Does that help?

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