it seems like there is no proper documentation regarding git notes. I have added some notes to one of the commit using git notes add command. but when i push the commit, and later do a separate clone, ...

I want to associate custom metadata with a git commit. Specifically to record a review ID from a code review but it could be anything. Tags seem a natural way to do that but I expect to have a ...

I have bit of a difficulty in deleting a local ref branch(refs/notes/origin/commits). I was able to delete the branch(refs/notes/origin/commits) in the remote repository using the command git push ...

I know that git notes can be fetched after cloning using: git fetch origin refs/notes/*:refs/notes/* or even be setup in git config to be always fetched. However at clone time I do not get the notes,...

I've read this and this but still see them as obscure. By far understood: creation (git notes add -m "a note") notes are namespaced Questions: notes seem not to create a commit, so how the push (...

I'd like to attach a note to a tree object. However, in order to do so I first need to know the tree object's hash. For a given directory name that's part of my repository, how do I get its belonging ...

For example: git commit -am "Something" git notes append -m "Dark " git commit -am "Something" git notes append -m "Side" git rebase -i # now I squash two commits and I expect to see "Dark Side" ...

For some reasons, I have to rewrite the entire history of my git repository to change the committer_id of every commit. However, I attached a note to more or less every commit and using git-filter-...

I followed these instructions in order to merge Git notes. I cloned a repo, added notes reference to the commit (refs/notes/commits). When i push it, central repo rejects it as it was non-fast forward—...

I'm working with a Git repository and would like to define custom properties to apply to each file in the repository. These properties could then be updated on each commit. Ideally the properties ...

How can I dump a log of my commits showing only the ones with notes of a given namespace? Commits without notes, or notes not belonging to a given namespace should be filtered out In the text dump I ...

I am trying to realize a use-case using git. Use Case : It should be possible to add metadata (like Attributes) to git artifacts. We plan to have a git repo for each component, so applying a note ...

We'd like to annotate our commits with git notes add, which works fine. To get a list of all commits with notes we use this command git notes | cut -d' ' -f2 | xargs -ihash git log hash -1 Now we ...

I use git notes in my repository. Sometimes I need to find a commit with note that includes given string. So far I was using this command: git log --show-notes=* --grep="PATTERN" --format=format:%H ...

I migrated from SVN to git and i had a note in each git commit referencing to SVN revision number. After repo import i used BFG repo cleaner to clean git history from binary files and other trash. ...