Re: [PATCH] b4: Include git notes when generating patches

[Konstantin Ryabitsev]

On Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 08:13:31PM +0000, Yazen Ghannam wrote:
> By default, 'git show' will include git notes in its output. However,
> this is not the case if '--format', or related flags, are given.
> 
> Include the '--notes' flag to include git notes in the generated patch.

I'd love to do that, but git-filter-repo currently doesn't do the right thing
with notes, so anyone who starts to rely on notes will find that they are
easily lost with most common b4 operations. There's a long-standing RFE to
support notes with git-filter-repo:

https://github.com/newren/git-filter-repo/issues/22

Until that happens, I really don't want to pretend that we support notes,
because this will result in bad experiences for most who try it.

-K