There is no 'ref/notes/' hierarchy. '[format] notes = foo' uses notes that are found in 'refs/notes/foo'. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> --- * According to my eyeballing "git grep refs/ Documentation" result, this was the only remaining mention of "ref/" in Documentation/ hierarchy that misspells "refs/". Documentation/config/format.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git c/Documentation/config/format.txt w/Documentation/config/format.txt index c98412b697..7410e930e5 100644 --- c/Documentation/config/format.txt +++ w/Documentation/config/format.txt @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ format.notes:: `--notes=<ref>`, where `ref` is the non-boolean value. Defaults to false. + -If one wishes to use the ref `ref/notes/true`, please use that literal +If one wishes to use the ref `refs/notes/true`, please use that literal instead. + This configuration can be specified multiple times in order to allow