From: Jonathan Nieder Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 19:11:14 GMT Subject: Re: git notes and git-commit Message-ID: <20101210191114.GB6210@burratino> In-Reply-To: <201012101513.43890.johan@herland.net> Johan Herland wrote: > That said, there might well be good use cases for this (e.g. using notes > to store data types - e.g. binary data - that cannot be part of the > commit message) A small clarification: Can't binary data be part of the commit message, too? I suppose you mean "e.g. using notes to store data - e.g. build products - that would be obnoxious to be unconditionally shown by git log".