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[PATCH v2] docs: improve the example that illustrates git-notes path names

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Noam Yorav-Raphael via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 3, 2020, 16:21 UTC
Message-ID
<pull.692.v2.git.1596471677167.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
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From: Noam Yorav-Raphael <noamraph@gmail.com>

Make it clear that the filename has only the rest of the object ID, not the entirety of it.

Signed-off-by: Noam Yorav-Raphael <noamraph@gmail.com>
---
    Improve the example that illustrates git-notes path names
    
    docs: improve the example that illustrates git-notes path names
    
    Make it clear that the filename has only the rest of the object ID, not
    the entirety of it.
    
    Changed: improved the commit message, according to comments by Taylor
    Blau.
Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-692%2Fnoamraph%2Fclearer-notes-path-doc-v2
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-692/noamraph/clearer-notes-path-doc-v2
Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/692
Range-diff vs v1:
 1:  76a674871a ! 1:  8b3defb657 docs: improve the example that illustrates git-notes path names
     @@ Metadata
       ## Commit message ##
          docs: improve the example that illustrates git-notes path names
      
     -    The existing git-notes doc says:
     -
     -    > Permitted pathnames have the form ab/cd/ef/…​/abcdef…​: a sequence of
     -    > directory names of two hexadecimal digits each followed by a filename
     -    > with the rest of the object ID.
     -
     -    Even though the text says that the filename has the rest of the object ID,
     -    I felt the need to check this, since the example gives the impression that
     -    the filename is the entire object ID (a schema which is quite prevalent).
     -
     -    The new example makes it clear that the filename has only the rest of the
     -    object ID, and not the entire object ID.
     +    Make it clear that the filename has only the rest of the object ID,
     +    not the entirety of it.
      
          Signed-off-by: Noam Yorav-Raphael <noamraph@gmail.com>
      
 Documentation/git-notes.txt | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-notes.txt b/Documentation/git-notes.txt
index ced2e8280e..9fc1979531 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-notes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-notes.txt
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ are taken from notes refs.  A notes ref is usually a branch which
 contains "files" whose paths are the object names for the objects
 they describe, with some directory separators included for performance
 reasons footnote:[Permitted pathnames have the form
-'ab'`/`'cd'`/`'ef'`/`'...'`/`'abcdef...': a sequence of directory
+'12'`/`'34'`/`'56'`/`'...'`/`'789abc...': a sequence of directory
 names of two hexadecimal digits each followed by a filename with the
 rest of the object ID.].
 

base-commit: 85b4e0a6dc8407de6f69808d9ee6debdf167ced3
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  1. docs: improve the example that illustrates git-notes path namesNoam Yorav-Raphael via GitGitGadget, Aug 3, 2020
  2. Taylor BlauAug 3, 2020
  3. Junio C HamanoAug 3, 2020
  4. Taylor BlauAug 3, 2020
  5. docs: improve the example that illustrates git-notes path namesNoam Yorav-Raphael via GitGitGadget, Aug 3, 2020
  6. Taylor BlauAug 3, 2020
  7. docs: improve the example that illustrates git-notes path namesNoam Yorav-Raphael via GitGitGadget, Aug 3, 2020
  8. Taylor BlauAug 3, 2020
  9. Junio C HamanoAug 3, 2020

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