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| author |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2011-09-02 13:17:40 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2011-09-02 13:17:40 -0700 |
| commit | 78c5be231bbd58f4deb6ecfabfaff1b2279a4c25 (patch) | |
| tree | 79ae8912a7aa80ff27e439bc74c300da54889c28 | |
| parent | Merge branch 'fg/submodule-ff-check-before-push' (diff) | |
| parent | git-notes.txt: clarify -C vs. copy and -F (diff) | |
| download | tgif-78c5be231bbd58f4deb6ecfabfaff1b2279a4c25.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'mg/maint-notes-C-doc'
* mg/maint-notes-C-doc:
git-notes.txt: clarify -C vs. copy and -F
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-notes.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-notes.txt b/Documentation/git-notes.txt index 6a187f2e23..e8319eac69 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-notes.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-notes.txt @@ -142,8 +142,9 @@ OPTIONS -C <object>:: --reuse-message=<object>:: - Take the note message from the given blob object (for - example, another note). + Take the given blob object (for example, another note) as the + note message. (Use `git notes copy <object>` instead to + copy notes between objects.) -c <object>:: --reedit-message=<object>:: @@ -285,6 +286,8 @@ $ blob=$(git hash-object -w a.out) $ git notes --ref=built add -C "$blob" HEAD ------------ +(You cannot simply use `git notes --ref=built add -F a.out HEAD` +because that is not binary-safe.) Of course, it doesn't make much sense to display non-text-format notes with 'git log', so if you use such notes, you'll probably need to write some special-purpose tools to do something useful with them. |