Re: [PATCH 1/2] notes: don't expand qualified refs in expand_notes_ref

> Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com> writes:
>
>> From: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
>>
>> The documentation for --refs says that it will treat unqualified refs as
>> under refs/notes. Current behavior is to prefix refs/notes to all
>> strings that do not start with refs/notes or notes/, resulting in
>> performing actions on refs such as "refs/notes/refs/foo/bar" instead of
>> attempting to perform actions on "refs/foo/bar".
>
> That actually sounds like a sensible thing to do, if you replace
> 'foo' with 'heads', for example, i.e. refs/notes/refs/heads/bar is a
> notes about commits reachable from the branch whose name is 'bar'.
>
> So given "refs/heads/bar", which is unqualified in the context of
> talking about references that hold notes trees, the current
> behaviour to turn it into "refs/notes/refs/heads/bar" is very
> sensible, I would think.
>