Is it possible to get git to automatically update notes on the remote server when I do a git push/git pull

Question

Currently if I add notes to an object in git I have to explicitly push/pull this information to the remote server.

Is it possible to configure git so that when I do a git push it will push my local notes changes as well as any local source changes?

Likewise for git pull.

Answer 1

Yes for git pull, no for git push.

You can fetch notes:

[remote "origin"]
    fetch = +refs/notes/*:refs/notes/*
    fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*

but, as mentioned in "Note to Self" (2010, but I don't think this has changed):

However, you can push anything under 'refs/' to a server, you just need to be more explicit about it. If you run this it will work fine:

$ git push origin refs/notes/bugzilla

In fact, you may want to just make that git push origin refs/notes/* which will push all your notes.
This is what Git does normally for something like tags. When you run git push origin --tags it basically expands to git push origin refs/tags/*.

git push doesn't push all tags by default (see "Why git doesn't push tags by default?").
git push doesn't push all notes for the same reason.