From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2025 16:53:48 GMT
Subject: Re: Feature Request: Add comments to commits
Message-ID: <xmqqwm6o1zab.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <a0c393df-a23c-49e0-8985-4748e1769a62@app.fastmail.com>

"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>]".