Package: kgb-client-git Version: 1.26-1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer,
It would be nice if kgb-client-git would gain support for git-notes. Technically this is a branch that usually lives under refs/notes/commits. As such the current behaviour is of kgb is an error message "*** Unknown type of update to ...". The contents of a git-notes branch is a single tree with commit ids as blob names. When running git show or git log the notes corresponding the commit are appended to the log message. The commit messages on the refs/notes/commits branch are automatically generated and generally useless. Posting them to irc is not useful. What would be actually interesting is the change in the contents of the notes. Even though they reside in blobs and therefore permit arbitrary binary data, they usually are plain text (and the same applies to normal commit messages). To implement this feature a new sub similar to the branch_update sub would have to calculate the diff of a notes update and post it to irc if the length is reasonable. Since the notes feature was primarily intended for local notes, the remote interaction is not that obvious. I am giving a brief summary here. One of the first issues is that notes are not automatically fetched with git fetch. To achieve that add a line like "fetch = +refs/notes/commits:refs/notes/remote-commit-notes". Then one can incorporate the remote notes using "git notes merge remote-commit-notes". To get your own notes to the remote server (and hopefully trigger kgb in future) you can use "git push origin refs/notes/commits". Helmut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
