Re: [PATCH] log: respect log.shownotes variable

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 10:01:46AM +0800, Michael J Gruber wrote:

> BTW: I used to keep external notes in
> refs/remotes/remotename/notes/notestree but since a while ago the notes
> code insists on refs/notes/. In some sense it is similar to tags, where
> you need to set up special refspecs if you want to have the remote
> tags/notes but don't want to mix them (and possibly have them conflict)
> with your own. But I don't know a good strategy for making this more
> user friendly.

I always assumed that the "prepend refs/notes" magic would refuse to do
so if the ref started with "notes/" (in which case it would append
"refs/") or "refs/" (in which case it would append nothing). That is how
we handle some situations where a branch head or a remote could be
used.

But I never checked, so maybe it doesn't. It probably should.

-Peff