Git: Mastering Version Control

Pushing notes to a remote repository

We have tried and succeeded in retrieving the notes from the remote repository, but what about your notes? How can you push them to the server? This has to be done with the push command just as with any other references, such as branches and commits, when you want to publish them to a remote repository.

How to do it...

Before we can push the notes from the shareNotes repository, we have to create a note to be pushed, as the notes we have now are all available on the remote repository. The remote repository in this case is the chapter5 directory:

1. I have found a commit I would like to add a note to, and I want to add the note in the verified reference:

   $ git notes --ref verified add -m "Verified by [e-mail]" ...