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Re: Feature Request: Add comments to commits

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KHKristoffer Haugsbakk <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com>
Date
Aug 27, 2025, 10:32 UTC
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On Wed, Aug 27, 2025, at 12:29, Rune Philosof wrote:
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> Git commit messages quality is very important when you investigate your history.
> Often it would be useful to be able to attach comments to commits
> messages for instance to add forgotten information.
> Those comments should be shown when `git show`ing a commit.
> Could be implemented as commits that use a new field to link to the
> commit they should be shown with, along with some index to make it
> performant.
git-notes(1)
> Services like Github that already have comments on commits and PRs,
> could integrate with this to make comments made on the platform part
> of git.
They stopped supporting it in 2014.
https://github.blog/news-insights/the-library/git-notes-display/
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  3. Junio C HamanoAug 27, 2025
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