Re: git-replay/git-history lose notes

On Wed, Aug 5, 2026 at 2:27 AM Patrick Steinhardt <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Aug 04, 2026 at 04:06:38PM -0400, D. Ben Knoble wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I don't think this has been reported or discussed yet, though my
> > apologies if my search skills just didn't find it.
> >
> > It looks like git-replay and git-history will drop notes (or rather,
> > not carry them over) when rewriting history. I've seen this both with
> > "git replay --onto=… …" and "git history fixup" recently, though I
> > suspect it affects all the modes.
[snip]
>
> This somehow rings a bell -- wasn't there a recent discussion about this
> on the mailing list somewhere? I might be confusing it with a different
> command though that's loosing notes.

Yeah, that rings a bell for me, too. A peculiar rebase bug, I think?

> > Are notes out of scope for replay and history, or is this just a
> > "nobody's gotten around to it yet"?
>
> For git-replay(1) I'm not too sure, as I consider that command to be
> part of plumbing. But git-history(1) is a user-facing command, and
> because of that I think it should handle notes automatically for the
> user.

I can't speak for replay, although I do use it as a convenient "rebase
a bunch of local branches that have conflicts without checking each
one out"… but the history part makes sense to me.

> So for me at least it's more of a "nobody's gotten around to it yet"
> scenario. I've created an issue in our GitLab issue tracker so that we
> can maybe pick this up in the next release cycle. But I won't complain
> if anybody beats us to it :)
>
> Thanks!

Thank you!

-- 
D. Ben Knoble