Users had problems finding a working setting for notes.rewriteRef. Document how to enable rewriting for notes/commits, which should be a safe setting. Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Junio C Hamano wrote: > Should we drop this post 1.7.7, or (preferrably) replace it with better > instructions? I'd replace it with this bit. Users who have trouble setting the variable to something useful will likely not know how to edit non-default notes trees, either. Documentation/config.txt | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 0ecef9d..0813812 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -1464,7 +1464,8 @@ notes.rewriteRef:: You may also specify this configuration several times. + Does not have a default value; you must configure this variable to -enable note rewriting. +enable note rewriting. Set it to `refs/notes/commits` to enable +rewriting for the default commit notes. + This setting can be overridden with the `GIT_NOTES_REWRITE_REF` environment variable, which must be a colon separated list of refs or -- 1.7.7.rc0.487.g1b75 -- 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