From: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2012 15:58:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Add --expand to 'git notes get-ref'
Message-ID: <CALKQrgdRqd59pfLtpROwxtrFjvO5oYgKKN3KCp1NA4aMEEcj1w@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <cover.1346848834.git.wking@tremily.us>

On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 2:48 PM, W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us> wrote:
> The second commit makes the expansion less strict about the location
> of note refs.  In his initial mail introducing 'git notes', Johan says
> that note refs should live under 'refs/notes' [1].  This seems like a
> good place for local notes, but note refs from remote repos should
> probably live somewhere else (e.g. 'refs/remote-notes/' or
> 'refs/remotes/<name>/notes/'.  In the initial thread there are a few
> messages talking about looking up reverse mappings under 'refs/notes/',
> but this seems to all have been before the 'refs/notes/<namespace>/'
> stage.  If I'm missing a good reason to keep everything under
> 'refs/notes/', feel free to ignore the second patch.

This has been discussed a couple of times on this list, but it never
resulted in any actual changes. Read up on this thread to get some
context:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/160503


...Johan

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www.herland.net