Thread (21 messages) flat view 21 messages, 4 authors, 2016-06-15

Re: [PATCH 4/8] Documentation/notes: simplify treatment of default notes ref

From: Thomas Rast <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:48:47

Jonathan Nieder wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
@@ -187,13 +190,10 @@ CONFIGURATION
 -------------
 
 core.notesRef::
-	When showing commit messages, also show notes which are stored in
-	the given ref.  The ref must be fully qualified.  If the given
-	ref does not exist, it is not an error but means that no
-	notes should be printed.
-+
-This setting defaults to "refs/notes/commits", and it can be overridden by
-the 'GIT_NOTES_REF' environment variable.  See linkgit:git-notes[1].
+	Notes ref to read and manipulate instead of
+	`refs/notes/commits`.  Must be an unabbreviated ref name.
+	This setting can be overridden through the environment and
+	command line.
In the end result, this makes core.notesRef the only configuration
variable which does not have its environment sibling named explicitly
in the config section.  Would you mind putting GIT_NOTES_REF back in
the sentence for consistency with the other variables?

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
Keyboard shortcuts
hback out one level
jnext message in thread
kprevious message in thread
ldrill in
Escclose help / fold thread tree
?toggle this help