'git notes' merge [-v | -q] [-s <strategy> ] <notes_ref>
'git notes' merge --commit [-v | -q]
'git notes' merge --abort [-v | -q]
-'git notes' remove [<object>]
+'git notes' remove [--ignore-missing] [--stdin] [<object>...]
'git notes' prune [-n | -v]
+'git notes' get-ref
DESCRIPTION
add::
Add notes for a given object (defaults to HEAD). Abort if the
- object already has notes (use `-f` to overwrite an
- existing note).
+ object already has notes (use `-f` to overwrite existing notes).
+ However, if you're using `add` interactively (using an editor
+ to supply the notes contents), then - instead of aborting -
+ the existing notes will be opened in the editor (like the `edit`
+ subcommand).
copy::
Copy the notes for the first object onto the second object.
'git notes merge --abort'.
remove::
- Remove the notes for a given object (defaults to HEAD).
- This is equivalent to specifying an empty note message to
+ Remove the notes for given objects (defaults to HEAD). When
+ giving zero or one object from the command line, this is
+ equivalent to specifying an empty note message to
the `edit` subcommand.
prune::
Remove all notes for non-existing/unreachable objects.
+get-ref::
+ Print the current notes ref. This provides an easy way to
+ retrieve the current notes ref (e.g. from scripts).
+
OPTIONS
-------
-f::
'GIT_NOTES_REF' and the "core.notesRef" configuration. The ref
is taken to be in `refs/notes/` if it is not qualified.
+--ignore-missing::
+ Do not consider it an error to request removing notes from an
+ object that does not have notes attached to it.
+
+--stdin::
+ Also read the object names to remove notes from from the standard
+ input (there is no reason you cannot combine this with object
+ names from the command line).
+
-n::
--dry-run::
Do not remove anything; just report the object names whose notes
--strategy=<strategy>::
When merging notes, resolve notes conflicts using the given
strategy. The following strategies are recognized: "manual"
- (default), "ours", "theirs" and "union".
+ (default), "ours", "theirs", "union" and "cat_sort_uniq".
See the "NOTES MERGE STRATEGIES" section below for more
information on each notes merge strategy.
"union" automatically resolves notes conflicts by concatenating the
local and remote versions.
+"cat_sort_uniq" is similar to "union", but in addition to concatenating
+the local and remote versions, this strategy also sorts the resulting
+lines, and removes duplicate lines from the result. This is equivalent
+to applying the "cat | sort | uniq" shell pipeline to the local and
+remote versions. This strategy is useful if the notes follow a line-based
+format where one wants to avoid duplicated lines in the merge result.
+Note that if either the local or remote version contain duplicate lines
+prior to the merge, these will also be removed by this notes merge
+strategy.
+
EXAMPLES
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