posts:git:notes: point people towards git notes ref base thread.

Thanks to Johan for the pointer:

From: Johan Herland
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Add --expand to 'git notes get-ref'
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 17:58:37 +0200
Archived-At: <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/204833>

On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 2:48 PM, W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us> wrote:
> The second commit makes the expansion less strict about the location
> of note refs.  In his initial mail introducing 'git notes', Johan says
> that note refs should live under 'refs/notes' [1].  This seems like a
> good place for local notes, but note refs from remote repos should
> probably live somewhere else (e.g. 'refs/remote-notes/' or
> 'refs/remotes/<name>/notes/'.  In the initial thread there are a few
> messages talking about looking up reverse mappings under 'refs/notes/',
> but this seems to all have been before the 'refs/notes/<namespace>/'
> stage.  If I'm missing a good reason to keep everything under
> 'refs/notes/', feel free to ignore the second patch.

This has been discussed a couple of times on this list, but it never
resulted in any actual changes. Read up on this thread to get some
context:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/160503

diff --git a/posts/Git/notes.org b/posts/Git/notes.org
index 945e52448f47682a49a49fe83601af304b56dfdd..64632ad1b50ce2700e0f0bd90620ca7ffaebb267 100644 (file)
--- a/posts/Git/notes.org
+++ b/posts/Git/notes.org
@@ -1233,6 +1233,8 @@ But:
 
 which is probably not what you wanted.
 
+For more details about why this is the case, read [[http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/160503][this thread]].
+
 **** Fast forward merges
 
 You can check out the note branch and pull/push/merge just like any