git/Documentation/git-notes.txt
Johan Herland d9246d4303 Teach "-m <msg>" and "-F <file>" to "git notes edit"
The "-m" and "-F" options are already the established method
(in both git-commit and git-tag) to specify a commit/tag message
without invoking the editor. This patch teaches "git notes edit"
to respect the same options for specifying a notes message without
invoking the editor.

Multiple "-m" and/or "-F" options are concatenated as separate
paragraphs.

The patch also updates the "git notes" documentation and adds
selftests for the new functionality. Unfortunately, the added
selftests include a couple of lines with trailing whitespace
(without these the test will fail). This may cause git to warn
about "whitespace errors".

This patch has been improved by the following contributions:
- Thomas Rast: fix trailing whitespace in t3301

Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-19 18:59:43 -07:00

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git-notes(1)
============
NAME
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git-notes - Add/inspect commit notes
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
'git-notes' (edit [-F <file> | -m <msg>] | show) [commit]
DESCRIPTION
-----------
This command allows you to add notes to commit messages, without
changing the commit. To discern these notes from the message stored
in the commit object, the notes are indented like the message, after
an unindented line saying "Notes:".
To disable commit notes, you have to set the config variable
core.notesRef to the empty string. Alternatively, you can set it
to a different ref, something like "refs/notes/bugzilla". This setting
can be overridden by the environment variable "GIT_NOTES_REF".
SUBCOMMANDS
-----------
edit::
Edit the notes for a given commit (defaults to HEAD).
show::
Show the notes for a given commit (defaults to HEAD).
OPTIONS
-------
-m <msg>::
Use the given note message (instead of prompting).
If multiple `-m` (or `-F`) options are given, their
values are concatenated as separate paragraphs.
-F <file>::
Take the note message from the given file. Use '-' to
read the note message from the standard input.
If multiple `-F` (or `-m`) options are given, their
values are concatenated as separate paragraphs.
Author
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Written by Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Documentation
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Documentation by Johannes Schindelin
GIT
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Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite