Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 7:26 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Johan Herland <johan@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>> I know that we don't yet have a "proper" place to put remote notes refs, >>> but the <ref> in notes.<ref>.merge _must_ be a "local" notes ref (you even >>> use the <localref> notation in the documentation below). Thus, I believe >>> we can presume that the local notes ref must live under refs/notes/*, >>> and hence drop the "refs/notes/" prefix from the config key (just like >>> branch.<name>.* can presume that <name> lives under refs/heads/*). >> >> I am OK going in that direction, as long as we promise that "notes >> merge" will forever refuse to work on --notes=$ref where $ref does >> not begin with refs/notes/. > > It appears that notes merge already allows operating on refs not in "refs/notes" If that is the case, then the only sane choice left to us is to accept only fully qualified refname, e.g. refs/notes/commit, in notes.<ref>.mergestrategy, without shortening, I would think. -- 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