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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

  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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