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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: git notes and git-commit
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 13:11:14 -0600
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Johan Herland wrote:

> That said, there might well be good use cases for this (e.g. using notes 
> to store data types - e.g. binary data - that cannot be part of the 
> commit message)

A small clarification: Can't binary data be part of the commit
message, too?  I suppose you mean "e.g. using notes to store data -
e.g. build products - that would be obnoxious to be unconditionally
shown by git log".