On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 3:28 AM, Mike Hommey <mh@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> init_notes() is the main point of entry to the notes API. It is an arbitrary
> restriction that all it allows as input is a strict ref name, when callers
> may want to give an arbitrary treeish.
>
> However, some operations that require updating the notes tree require a
> strict ref name, because they wouldn't be able to update e.g. foo@{1}.
>
> So we allow treeish expressions to be used in the case the notes tree is
> going to be used without write "permissions", and to distinguish whether
> the notes tree is intended to be used for reads only, or will be updated,
> a flag is added.
>
> This has the side effect of enabling the use of treeish as notes refs in
> commands allowing them, e.g. git log --notes=foo@{1}.
Looks good. However, on a second pass I noticed that the patch comes
with no tests. I'd like at least a couple of tests thrown in there to verify
correctness; e.g. reading notes from refs/notes/commits^{tree} shall
succeed, and trying to write notes to refs/notes/commits^{tree} shall fail.
...Johan
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Johan Herland, <johan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
www.herland.net
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