From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2025 20:25:49 GMT
Subject: Re: Feature Request: Add comments to commits
Message-ID: <dc0651fb-4059-41a7-817a-a68c8736ec70@app.fastmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqwm6o1zab.fsf@gitster.g>

On Wed, Aug 27, 2025, at 18:53, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "Kristoffer Haugsbakk" <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Wed, Aug 27, 2025, at 12:29, Rune Philosof wrote:
>>> 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)
>
> ... together with "git log --notes[=<ref>]".

I think that’s covered well enough by the man page. ;)

-- 
Kristoffer Haugsbakk