On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 5:31 PM, Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> wrote:

> Sebastian Schuberth <sschube...@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Schuberth <sschube...@gmail.com>
>> ---
>>  Documentation/git-notes.txt | 5 +++--
>>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/git-notes.txt b/Documentation/git-notes.txt
>> index 8de3499..5375d98 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/git-notes.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/git-notes.txt
>> @@ -234,8 +234,9 @@ which operation triggered the update, and the commit 
>> authorship is
>>  determined according to the usual rules (see linkgit:git-commit[1]).
>>  These details may change in the future.
>>
>> -It is also permitted for a notes ref to point directly to a tree
>> -object, in which case the history of the notes can be read with
>> +It is also permitted for a notes ref to point to any other object in
>> +the object store besides commit objects, that is annotated tags, blobs
>> +or trees. For the latter, the history of the notes can be read with
>>  `git log -p -g <refname>`.
>
> I do not think this is correct place to patch.  The original is not
> talking about what objects can have notes attached at all.  What it
> explains is this.

Thanks for the explanation, I was indeed misreading this. I'll try to
clarify this section then, too. In order to do so, I think we should
mention how to actually create a <refname> that directly points to a
tree instead of a commit for the history of notes. Would you have an
example how to do that?

-- 
Sebastian Schuberth
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