Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 4/6] osstest: introduce a helper to get the svn revision of a git commit

[Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Roger Pau Monne writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 4/6] osstest: introduce a 
helper to get the svn revision of a git commit"):
> On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 11:03:52AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > git notes have some different way of travelling than commits, don't
> > they ?  Where is this git note coming from and how do we know it is
> > the right note, IYSWIM ?
> 
> I'm not an expert on this, but I think notes are always stored in a
> separate branch on the same repo? In the FreeBSD case at least it's
> git/refs/notes.

OK, so what are git's rules for where it fetches notes from ?  Which
notes does it look at ?  (Do you understand why I am asking these
questions?)

> > Aside from that, please break the refactoring (in this case, the
> > breaking out of repo_get_realurl) into a separate NFC patch.
> 
> Sure!

Thanks,
Ian.

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