Subject: Re: [PATCH] notes: document behavior of --ref and --notes DWIMery

From: "Keller, Jacob E" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 21:03:31 +0000

On Tue, 2015-09-22 at 13:40 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> How about phrasing it totally differently?
> 
> 	The ref specifies the full refname when it begins with
> 	`refs/notes/`; otherwise `ref/notes/` is prefixed to form a
> 	full name of the ref.
> 
> I think that would remove the need to illustrate with concrete
> examples like refs/heads/blah.
> 

Wait, what about the DWIM of notes/<name> goes to refs/notes/<name>..
do we need to explain that here? it might seem that "notes/foo" ends up
as "refs/notes/notes/foo" which is not really what we mean.

Regards,
Jake