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authorLibravatar Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>2014-11-12 01:40:14 +0100
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2014-11-12 11:00:11 -0800
commitd73a5b933db1e722faa54d6709e89e2450d7c1e3 (patch)
tree758422932df86d91545398515278e7192749937d /Documentation
parentbuiltin/notes: split create_note() to clarify add vs. remove logic (diff)
downloadtgif-d73a5b933db1e722faa54d6709e89e2450d7c1e3.tar.xz
builtin/notes: add --allow-empty, to allow storing empty notes
Although the "git notes" man page advertises that we support binary-safe notes addition (using the -C option), we currently do not support adding the empty note (i.e. using the empty blob to annotate an object). Instead, an empty note is always treated as an intent to remove the note altogether. Introduce the --allow-empty option to the add/append/edit subcommands, to explicitly allow an empty note to be stored into the notes tree. Also update the documentation, and add test cases for the new option. Reported-by: James H. Fisher <jhf@trifork.com> Improved-by: Kyle J. McKay <mackyle@gmail.com> Improved-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-notes.txt12
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-notes.txt b/Documentation/git-notes.txt
index 310f0a5e8c..851518d531 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-notes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-notes.txt
@@ -9,10 +9,10 @@ SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
'git notes' [list [<object>]]
-'git notes' add [-f] [-F <file> | -m <msg> | (-c | -C) <object>] [<object>]
+'git notes' add [-f] [--allow-empty] [-F <file> | -m <msg> | (-c | -C) <object>] [<object>]
'git notes' copy [-f] ( --stdin | <from-object> <to-object> )
-'git notes' append [-F <file> | -m <msg> | (-c | -C) <object>] [<object>]
-'git notes' edit [<object>]
+'git notes' append [--allow-empty] [-F <file> | -m <msg> | (-c | -C) <object>] [<object>]
+'git notes' edit [--allow-empty] [<object>]
'git notes' show [<object>]
'git notes' merge [-v | -q] [-s <strategy> ] <notes-ref>
'git notes' merge --commit [-v | -q]
@@ -155,6 +155,10 @@ OPTIONS
Like '-C', but with '-c' the editor is invoked, so that
the user can further edit the note message.
+--allow-empty::
+ Allow an empty note object to be stored. The default behavior is
+ to automatically remove empty notes.
+
--ref <ref>::
Manipulate the notes tree in <ref>. This overrides
'GIT_NOTES_REF' and the "core.notesRef" configuration. The ref
@@ -287,7 +291,7 @@ arbitrary files using 'git hash-object':
------------
$ cc *.c
$ blob=$(git hash-object -w a.out)
-$ git notes --ref=built add -C "$blob" HEAD
+$ git notes --ref=built add --allow-empty -C "$blob" HEAD
------------
(You cannot simply use `git notes --ref=built add -F a.out HEAD`