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Johan Herland cd067d3bf4 Builtin-ify git-notes
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>
2010-02-13 19:36:13 -08:00

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git-notes(1)
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NAME
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git-notes - Add/inspect commit notes
SYNOPSIS
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[verse]
'git notes' (edit [-F <file> | -m <msg>] | show) [commit]
DESCRIPTION
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This command allows you to add notes to commit messages, without
changing the commit. To discern these notes from the message stored
in the commit object, the notes are indented like the message, after
an unindented line saying "Notes:".
To disable commit notes, you have to set the config variable
core.notesRef to the empty string. Alternatively, you can set it
to a different ref, something like "refs/notes/bugzilla". This setting
can be overridden by the environment variable "GIT_NOTES_REF".
SUBCOMMANDS
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edit::
Edit the notes for a given commit (defaults to HEAD).
show::
Show the notes for a given commit (defaults to HEAD).
OPTIONS
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-m <msg>::
Use the given note message (instead of prompting).
If multiple `-m` options are given, their values
are concatenated as separate paragraphs.
-F <file>::
Take the note message from the given file. Use '-' to
read the note message from the standard input.
Author
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Written by Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Documentation
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Documentation by Johannes Schindelin
GIT
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