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Re: [PATCH] notes: document behavior of --ref and --notes DWIMery

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Keller, Jacob E <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Date
Sep 22, 2015, 21:03 UTC
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On Tue, 2015-09-22 at 13:40 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> 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

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