From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:16:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation: basic configuration of notes.rewriteRef
Message-ID: <7vty8gwefy.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <95a35723c2ac7e3accfceec2cdededcd213fb59b.1315899036.git.trast@student.ethz.ch>

Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> writes:

> Users had problems finding a working setting for notes.rewriteRef.
> Document how to enable rewriting for notes/commits, which should be a
> safe setting.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
> ---
>
> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Should we drop this post 1.7.7, or (preferrably) replace it with better
>> instructions?
>
> I'd replace it with this bit.  Users who have trouble setting the
> variable to something useful will likely not know how to edit
> non-default notes trees, either.

Ok. Thanks.

> +enable note rewriting.  Set it to `refs/notes/commits` to enable
> +rewriting for the default commit notes.