Re: git-replay/git-history lose notes

On Wed, Aug 5, 2026 at 9:00 AM Phillip Wood <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 05/08/2026 12:39, D. Ben Knoble wrote:
> > 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:
[snip]
> >>> 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.
>
> I think having a command line option for replay to turn on note copying
> would be useful (and as a plumbing command we may not want the behavior
> changing via config). The implementation will probably want to live in
> the shared code anyway.

See also notes.rewrite.<command>, perhaps? Although your point about
config makes sense.

-- 
D. Ben Knoble