On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 01:50:04PM +0200, Vegard Nossum wrote: > I've improved the support for git notes in cgit, including the ability > to load notes from a separate repository than the one you are viewing. > > My use case is using a separate repository of git notes for the Linux > kernel to annotate commits with extra cross-referencing information such > as e.g.: > > - lore links to patch submissions matching the patch, > - references to subsequent fixes (if the current commit is buggy) > - mitre links to CVEs > - references to backports in stable/LTS
This sounds useful, but... > My hope is that these notes can eventually be displayed on > git.kernel.org -- at least, we've found the notes invaluable and a huge > time saver in different types of kernel work. (I'm still in the process > of working out how to release these notes and/or the scripts generating > them, but that's a different topic.) > > I tried to submit the git.git patches upstream, but they were rejected > by the maintainer for not being general enough: > https://lore.kernel.org/git/[email protected]/ ... this likely blocks inclusion in CGit as I don't think there's any desire to maintain a fork of git.git Parts of this series look like they make sense regardless of the separate repo option - patch 2 looks unrelated and the repo.notes_ref config option is potentially useful to keep the CGit config separate from gitconfig (although it should be "repo.notes-ref" for consistency with other config keys). Are you interested in splitting those parts out? Regards, John
