To the displaying code, the only interesting thing about a notes ref
is that it has a tree of the required format. However, notes actually
have a history since they are recorded as successive commits.
Make a note about the existence of this history in the manpage, but
keep some doors open if we want to change the details.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Acked-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Adds a shorthand option that overrides the GIT_NOTES_REF variable, and
hence determines the notes tree that will be manipulated. It also
DWIMs a refs/notes/ prefix.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Acked-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Implement helper functions to load the rewriting config, and to
actually copy the notes. Also document the config.
Secondly, also implement an undocumented --for-rewrite=<cmd> option to
'git notes copy' which is used like --stdin, but also puts the
configuration for <cmd> into effect. It will be needed to support the
copying in git-rebase.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Acked-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This implements a mass-copy command that takes a sequence of lines in
the format
<from-sha1> SP <to-sha1> [ SP <rest> ] LF
on stdin, and copies each <from-sha1>'s notes to the <to-sha1>. The
<rest> is ignored. The intent, of course, is that this can read the
same input that the 'post-rewrite' hook gets.
The copy_note() function is exposed for everyone's and in particular
the next commit's use.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Acked-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
With this patch, you can set notes.displayRef to a glob that points at
your favourite notes refs, e.g.,
[notes]
displayRef = refs/notes/*
Then git-log and friends will show notes from all trees.
Thanks to Junio C Hamano for lots of feedback, which greatly
influenced the design of the entire series and this commit in
particular.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Acked-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is useful for keeping notes to objects that are being rewritten by e.g.
'git commit --amend', 'git rebase', or 'git cherry-pick'.
"git notes copy <from> <to>" is in practice equivalent to
"git notes add -C $(git notes list <from>) <to>", although it is somewhat
more convenient for regular users.
"git notes copy" takes the same -f option as "git add", to overwrite existing
notes at the target (instead of aborting with an error message).
If the <from>-object has no notes, "git notes copy" will abort with an error
message.
The patch includes tests verifying correct behaviour of the new subcommand.
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Inspired by the -c/-C options to "git commit", we teach these options to
"git notes add/append" to allow reuse of note objects.
With this patch in place, it is now easy to copy or move notes between
objects. For example, to copy object A's notes to object B:
git notes add [-f] -C $(git notes list A) B
To move instead of copying, you simply remove the notes from the source
object afterwards, e.g.:
git notes remove A
The patch includes tests verifying correct behaviour of the new functionality.
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The semantics for "git notes edit -m/-F" overlap with those for
"git notes add -f", and the behaviour (i.e. overwriting existing
notes with the given message/file) is more intuitively captured
by (and better documented with) "git notes add -f".
Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git notes append" is equivalent to "git notes edit" except that instead
of editing existing notes contents, you can only append to it. This is
useful for quickly adding annotations like e.g.:
git notes append -m "Acked-by: A U Thor <author@example.com>"
"git notes append" takes the same -m/-F options as "git notes add".
If there is no existing note to append to, "git notes append" is identical
to "git notes add" (i.e. it adds a new note).
The patch includes tests verifying correct behaviour of the new subcommand.
Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git notes add" is identical to "git notes edit" except that instead of
editing existing notes for a given object, you can only add notes to an
object that currently has none. If "git notes add" finds existing notes
for the given object, the addition is aborted. However, if the new
-f/--force option is used, "git notes add" will _overwrite_ the existing
notes with the new notes contents.
If there is no existing notes for the given object. "git notes add" is
identical to "git notes edit" (i.e. it adds a new note).
The patch includes tests verifying correct behaviour of the new subcommand.
Suggested-by: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
Improved-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git notes list" will list all note objects in the current notes ref (in the
format "<note object> <annotated object>"). "git notes list <object>" will
list the note object associated with the given <object>, or fail loudly if
the given <object> has no associated notes.
If no arguments are given to "git notes", it defaults to the "list"
subcommand. This is for pseudo-compatibility with "git tag" and "git branch".
The patch includes tests verifying correct behaviour of the new subcommand.
Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Notes can annotate arbitrary objects (not only commits), but this is not
reflected in the current documentation.
This patch rewrites the git-notes documentation to talk about 'objects'
instead of 'commits'. However, the discussion on commit notes and how
they are displayed by 'git log' is largely preserved.
Finally, I add myself to the Author/Documentation credits, since most of
the lines in the git-notes code and docs are blamed on me.
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git notes prune" will remove all notes that annotate unreachable/non-
existing objects.
The patch includes tests verifying correct behaviour of the new subcommand.
Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Using "git notes remove" is equivalent to specifying an empty note message.
The patch includes tests verifying correct behaviour of the new subcommand.
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The builtin-ification includes some minor behavioural changes to the
command-line interface: It is no longer allowed to mix the -m and -F
arguments, and it is not allowed to use multiple -F options.
As part of the builtin-ification, we add the commit_notes() function
to the builtin API. This function (together with the notes.h API) can
be easily used from other builtins to manipulate the notes tree.
Also includes needed changes to t3301.
This patch has been improved by the following contributions:
- Stephen Boyd: Use die() instead of fprintf(stderr, ...) followed by exit(1)
Cc: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation was quite inconsistent when spelling 'git cmd' if it
only refers to the program, not to some specific invocation syntax:
both 'git-cmd' and 'git cmd' spellings exist.
The current trend goes towards dashless forms, and there is precedent
in 647ac70 (git-svn.txt: stop using dash-form of commands.,
2009-07-07) to actively eliminate the dashed variants.
Replace 'git-cmd' with 'git cmd' throughout, except where git-shell,
git-cvsserver, git-upload-pack, git-receive-pack, and
git-upload-archive are concerned, because those really live in the
$PATH.
The "-m" and "-F" options are already the established method
(in both git-commit and git-tag) to specify a commit/tag message
without invoking the editor. This patch teaches "git notes edit"
to respect the same options for specifying a notes message without
invoking the editor.
Multiple "-m" and/or "-F" options are concatenated as separate
paragraphs.
The patch also updates the "git notes" documentation and adds
selftests for the new functionality. Unfortunately, the added
selftests include a couple of lines with trailing whitespace
(without these the test will fail). This may cause git to warn
about "whitespace errors".
This patch has been improved by the following contributions:
- Thomas Rast: fix trailing whitespace in t3301
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The script 'git notes' allows you to edit and show commit notes, by
calling either
git notes show <commit>
or
git notes edit <commit>
This patch has been improved by the following contributions:
- Tor Arne Vestbø: fix printing of multi-line notes
- Michael J Gruber: test and handle empty notes gracefully
- Thomas Rast:
- only clean up message file when editing
- use GIT_EDITOR and core.editor over VISUAL/EDITOR
- t3301: fix confusing quoting in test for valid notes ref
- t3301: use test_must_fail instead of !
- refuse to edit notes outside refs/notes/
- Junio C Hamano: tests: fix "export var=val"
- Christian Couder: documentation: fix 'linkgit' macro in "git-notes.txt"
- Johan Herland: minor cleanup and bugfixing in git-notes.sh (v2)
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Tor Arne Vestbø <tavestbo@trolltech.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The script 'git notes' allows you to edit and show commit notes, by
calling either
git notes show <commit>
or
git notes edit <commit>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
