As we saw in the previous example, we can add notes to the commits; however, in some cases, it makes sense to store the information sorted by categories, such as featureImplemented
, defect
, and alsoCherryPick
. As briefly explained at the beginning of the chapter, notes are stored in refs/notes/commits
, but we can add multiple references so that we can easily sort and list the various scopes of the notes.
To start this example, we need a new branch that tracks the origin/stable-3.1
branch; we name the branch notesReferences
, and create and checkout the branch with the following command:
$ git checkout -b notesReferences --track origin/stable-3.1Branch notesReferences set up to track remote branch stable-3.1 from origin.Switched to a new branch 'notesReferences'