From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 22:34:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] notes: don't expand qualified refs in expand_notes_ref
Message-ID: <xmqqzj0mkn7r.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <1442441194-5506-2-git-send-email-jacob.e.keller@intel.com>

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.