I recently came across some old paper documentation for a project I have archived in Git that is not reflected in the commits. Not wanting to rebase and amend all the various commits and rewrite history I decided to add the new found information via Git Notes. I entered the notes in my local repository.
Now I've found that I can't push these notes to the remote repository, however.
I tried the following commands:
git push "origin_ssh" "/refs/notes/*"
git push "origin_ssh" /refs/notes/commits
git push "origin_ssh" /refs/notes
All of these give the error fatal: remote part of refspec is not a valid name in /refs/notes
What am I doing wrong here? How do I push the notes to the remote repository?
Solution: Don’t add a slash before
refs/notes/*.