notes: allow merging from arbitrary references

Create a new expansion function, expand_loose_notes_ref which will first
check whether the ref can be found using get_sha1. If it can't be found
then it will fallback to using expand_notes_ref. The content of the
strbuf will not be changed if the notes ref can be located using
get_sha1. Otherwise, it may be updated as done by expand_notes_ref.

Since we now support merging from non-notes refs, remove the test case
associated with that behavior. Add a test case for merging from a
non-notes ref.

Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/builtin/notes.c b/builtin/notes.c
index 52aa9af74b..b16b8b56a0 100644
--- a/builtin/notes.c
+++ b/builtin/notes.c
@@ -806,7 +806,7 @@ static int merge(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 
 	o.local_ref = default_notes_ref();
 	strbuf_addstr(&remote_ref, argv[0]);
-	expand_notes_ref(&remote_ref);
+	expand_loose_notes_ref(&remote_ref);
 	o.remote_ref = remote_ref.buf;
 
 	t = init_notes_check("merge");