Jacob Keller <jacob.kel...@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 7:26 PM, Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> wrote:
>> Johan Herland <jo...@herland.net> writes:
>>
>>> I know that we don't yet have a "proper" place to put remote notes refs,
>>> but the <ref> in notes.<ref>.merge _must_ be a "local" notes ref (you even
>>> use the <localref> notation in the documentation below). Thus, I believe
>>> we can presume that the local notes ref must live under refs/notes/*,
>>> and hence drop the "refs/notes/" prefix from the config key (just like
>>> branch.<name>.* can presume that <name> lives under refs/heads/*).
>>
>> I am OK going in that direction, as long as we promise that "notes
>> merge" will forever refuse to work on --notes=$ref where $ref does
>> not begin with refs/notes/.
>
> It appears that notes merge already allows operating on refs not in 
> "refs/notes"

If that is the case, then the only sane choice left to us is to
accept only fully qualified refname, e.g. refs/notes/commit, in
notes.<ref>.mergestrategy, without shortening, I would think.
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