Support showing notes from more than one notes tree

With this patch, you can set notes.displayRef to a glob that points at
your favourite notes refs, e.g.,

[notes]
	displayRef = refs/notes/*

Then git-log and friends will show notes from all trees.

Thanks to Junio C Hamano for lots of feedback, which greatly
influenced the design of the entire series and this commit in
particular.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Acked-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/git-notes.txt b/Documentation/git-notes.txt
index 14f73b988e..7abd0fbd23 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-notes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-notes.txt
@@ -27,12 +27,13 @@ A typical use of notes is to extend a commit message without having
 to change the commit itself. Such commit notes can be shown by `git log`
 along with the original commit message. To discern these notes from the
 message stored in the commit object, the notes are indented like the
-message, after an unindented line saying "Notes:".
+message, after an unindented line saying "Notes (<refname>):" (or
+"Notes:" for the default setting).
 
-To disable notes, you have to set the config variable core.notesRef to
-the empty string.  Alternatively, you can set it to a different ref,
-something like "refs/notes/bugzilla".  This setting can be overridden
-by the environment variable "GIT_NOTES_REF".
+This command always manipulates the notes specified in "core.notesRef"
+(see linkgit:git-config[1]), which can be overridden by GIT_NOTES_REF.
+To change which notes are shown by 'git-log', see the
+"notes.displayRef" configuration.
 
 
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