From: Jakub Narebski Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:27:02 GMT Subject: Commit annotations (was:: Octopus merge: unique (?) to git, but is it useful?) Message-ID: <200806032227.02951.jnareb@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Linus Torvalds wrote: > One of the things I could imagine using git for is to have "annotation > branches" for things like code review etc. They'd be a real branch in > their own right and with their own history, but at the same time they > could well want to point back to the "code branch" that they annotate by > considering that another parent in a "non-data merge" (and yes, you'd > obviously have to use a special merge strategy for things like that, but > you'd likely integrate it in some "annotation tool chain" rather than > anything else). By the way, what is status of git-notes / commit annotations? Did it got abandoned, on hiatus, or what? -- Jakub Narebski Poland