From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:55:46 GMT
Subject: Re: Commit annotations (editable commit messages)
Message-ID: <32541b131002121455s46bfe15aie484e9be484259c6@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <op.u71cw50km02fvl@cybershadow.mshome.net>

2010/2/12 Vladimir Panteleev <thecybershadow@gmail.com>:
> 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