Re: on pulling/cloning git notes

[Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>]

Christian MICHON venit, vidit, dixit 24.06.2010 10:22:
> Hi list,
> 
> I've been playing recently with git notes and figured out how to push
> my notes to my central gitolite server, tweaking .git/config in this
> way (adding a push section):
> 
> [remote "gitolite"]
>         url = gitolite:daat
>         fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/gitolite/*
>         push = +refs/notes/*:refs/notes/*
> 
> When trying to to a 'git clone --mirror' from that same gitolite
> server, I was expecting to get back refs/notes, but I did not.
> 
> Did I miss something or git notes are actually not meant to be cloned/pulled?
> 

As you can see from the default "fetch" line above, "refs/heads" are
fetched by default (when cloning, fetching etc.), but nothing else
(well, besides some tags). You can set up an additional fetch refspec to
get the notes also.

It's not done by default because it's up to you decide what to do with
the notes. Sometimes, you want them to end up in "refs/notes" so that
they are displayed by default. But maybe you want them in
"refs/notes/remotes/gitolites" e.g. and display them only on request
(--show-notes=remotes/gitolite), or merge them into your own notes.

Michael