Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] t/t3308-notes-merge.sh: succeed with relaxed notes refs

["Kyle J. McKay" <mackyle@gmail.com>]

On Jan 6, 2015, at 15:54, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> "Kyle J. McKay" <mackyle@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> A whitelist solves issue (1) but is no help for issue (2) unless some
>> additional additional part of the refs namespace were to be also
>> whitelisted.  Perhaps something like refs/x-<anything>/... in the  
>> same
>> vein as the various IETF standards for experimental names.
>
> Your (2) is about people who are _experimenting_, no?
>
> Why can't they use refs/notes/x-<anything>/* while doing so, and
> when that matures and proves useful to wider public we can make it
> more official by whitelisting refs/<that-thing> in addition to
> refs/notes/, and the problem is solved, no?

I supposed if that's the best that can be done.  The problem is then  
that if you set notes.displayRef to refs/notes/* to see all relevant  
notes, don't you end up seeing these experimental, not-meant-for-end- 
user-consumption notes if they are somewhere under refs/notes/ ?  My  
glob specs are a little fuzzy, maybe it's refs/notes/** that gets  
everything under it?