From: Jacob Keller Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 22:06:32 GMT Subject: [PATCH 0/2] notes: allow read only notes actions on refs outside of refs/notes Message-ID: <1442441194-5506-1-git-send-email-jacob.e.keller@intel.com> From: Jacob Keller The primary purpose of this series is to allow fetching remote notes into a namespace such as "refs/remote-notes//foo". Currently, git-notes refuses to operate on refs outside of refs/notes/* including merging from them, listing or showing them. This makes it difficult to share notes from a remote repository. Fix expand_notes_ref to not always prepend refs/notes to fully qualified refs. Allow git-notes actions which do not specify NOTES_INIT_WRITABLE to be performed on refs outside of refs/notes/* Future work will include more coupling of "refs/remote-notes/" into git-notes so that you can specify refs as "/foo" similar to how remotes work for branches. In addition, long term goal is to make it default to fetch notes into refs/remote-notes//*, and possibly to add some status for tracking similar to how tracking branches work. The one downside currently is that a test case for prevention of merge from "refs/heads/master" had to be removed as "git notes merge refs/heads/master" now works. I am not sure how this could be fixed.. I did not find any way to tell if a treeish actually was a notes tree or not... This topic depends on mh/notes-allow-reading-treeish and actually expands what this topic allowed before. Previously, treeishes such as notes@{1} were made allowable, but the ref still had to be found under refs/notes. No documentation changes were made as from the looks of it, documentation for --ref and core.notesRef is already correct despite the previous behavior of expand_notes_ref. In that sense, documentation was wrong before. Jacob Keller (2): notes: don't expand qualified refs in expand_notes_ref notes: allow non-writable actions on refs outside of refs/notes builtin/notes.c | 11 ++++++----- notes.c | 4 ++-- t/t3308-notes-merge.sh | 1 - 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) -- 2.6.0.rc2.248.g5b5be23