Thomas Rast wrote: > Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> -A typical use of notes is to extend a commit message without having >> -to change the commit itself. Such commit notes can be shown by `git log` >> -along with the original commit message. To discern these notes from the >> +A typical use of notes is to supplement a commit message without >> +changing the commit itself. Notes can be shown by 'git log' along with >> +the original commit message. To distinguish these notes from the >> message stored in the commit object, the notes are indented like the >> message, after an unindented line saying "Notes (<refname>):" (or >> -"Notes:" for the default setting). >> +"Notes:" for the main notes ref). [...] > The user might infer that "main" means core.notesRef, but the omission > of (<refname>) is actually hardcoded to only happen for > refs/notes/commits, so that's not correct. Oh! I had no inkling. I guess the simplest way to document this is to just say it: ... unindented line saying "Notes (<refname>):' (or "Notes:" for refs/notes/commits). Thanks for the explanation. Cheers, Jonathan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html