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Re: Commit annotations (editable commit messages)

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Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 12, 2010, 22:55 UTC
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2010/2/12 Vladimir Panteleev <thecybershadow@gmail.com>:
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> You have to agree, being able to edit commit messages in a controlled
> (logged/versioned) fashion is pretty useful. Aside mundane corrections such
> as typos or undocumented changes, it makes it possible to document bugs and
> other unintended changes in the commit that they were introduced. This is
> possible in centralized VCSes and is implemented in Subversion (controlled
> by a server-side hook).

It sounds like you want to read about a new feature called git-notes: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-notes.html

Have fun,
Avery
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