On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 7:13 PM, Johan Herland [off-list ref] wrote:

This is a pure code movement of the machinery for copying notes to
rewritten objects. This code was located in builtin/notes.c for
historical reasons. In order to make it available to builtin/commit.c
it was declared in builtin.h. This was more of an accident of history
than a concious design, and we now want to make this machinery more
widely available.

Hence, this patch moves the code into the new notes-utils.[hc] files
which are included into libgit.a. Except for adjusting #includes
accordingly, this patch merely moves the relevant functions verbatim
into the new files.

Cc: Thomas Rast <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <redacted>

I wonder where you got that idea from. Did you come up with that out thin air?

And here goes my bet; nobody will ever use these notes-utils outside
of the git binary. Ever.

-- 
Felipe Contreras