From: "Keller, Jacob E" <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
To: "gitster@pobox.com" <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
"mh@glandium.org" <mh@glandium.org>,
"mhagger@alum.mit.edu" <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>,
"johan@herland.net" <johan@herland.net>,
"jacob.keller@gmail.com" <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] notes: document behavior of --ref and --notes DWIMery
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 21:03:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1442955811.26280.50.camel@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqq8u7y2nnq.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
On Tue, 2015-09-22 at 13:40 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> How about phrasing it totally differently?
>
> The ref specifies the full refname when it begins with
> `refs/notes/`; otherwise `ref/notes/` is prefixed to form a
> full name of the ref.
>
> I think that would remove the need to illustrate with concrete
> examples like refs/heads/blah.
>
Wait, what about the DWIM of notes/<name> goes to refs/notes/<name>..
do we need to explain that here? it might seem that "notes/foo" ends up
as "refs/notes/notes/foo" which is not really what we mean.
Regards,
Jake
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-22 21:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-22 20:24 [PATCH] notes: document behavior of --ref and --notes DWIMery Jacob Keller
2015-09-22 20:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-09-22 21:02 ` Keller, Jacob E
2015-09-22 21:03 ` Keller, Jacob E [this message]
2015-09-22 21:23 ` Junio C Hamano
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