On Friday 14 January 2011, Edwin Kempin wrote: > How does 'git notes --ref' work? If I try > 'git notes --ref refs/meta/reject-commits add -m "reject" HEAD' > then the note is added to 'refs/notes/refs/meta/reject-commits' and > not as expected to 'refs/meta/reject-commits'. > > The description of the --ref option says [1]: > "The ref is taken to be in refs/notes/ if it is not qualified." > What is a qualified ref? A qualified ref (in this context) is one that starts with refs/notes. If it doesn't start with refs/notes, then refs/notes is prepended to it. This is a restriction we put in place to make sure the notes infrastructure didn't edit (i.e. damage) any refs outside the refs/notes/ namespace. We will probably remove this restriction in a future Git version. Until then, please keep your notes within the refs/notes/ namespace. ...Johan -- Johan Herland, <johan@xxxxxxxxxxx> www.herland.net -- 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