Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] t/t3308-notes-merge.sh: succeed with relaxed notes refs

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 15:54:44 -0800

"Kyle J. McKay" <[email-masked]> writes:

> A whitelist solves issue (1) but is no help for issue (2) unless some
> additional additional part of the refs namespace were to be also
> whitelisted.  Perhaps something like refs/x-<anything>/... in the same
> vein as the various IETF standards for experimental names.

Your (2) is about people who are _experimenting_, no?

Why can't they use refs/notes/x-<anything>/* while doing so, and
when that matures and proves useful to wider public we can make it
more official by whitelisting refs/<that-thing> in addition to
refs/notes/, and the problem is solved, no?