From: W. Trevor King Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 17:57:15 +0000 (-0400) Subject: posts:git:notes: point people towards git notes ref base thread. X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=61deaf5390932e0a02caa6d7b22ee66dbaf1b990;p=mw2txt.git 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: On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 2:48 PM, W. Trevor King 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//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//' > 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 945e524..64632ad 100644 --- 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