From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avery Pennarun Subject: Re: Commit annotations (editable commit messages) Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:55:46 -0500 Message-ID: <32541b131002121455s46bfe15aie484e9be484259c6@mail.gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Vladimir Panteleev X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Feb 12 23:56:19 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ng4Qs-0007RS-D0 for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:56:18 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753816Ab0BLW4M (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:56:12 -0500 Received: from mail-yw0-f179.google.com ([209.85.211.179]:48687 "EHLO mail-yw0-f179.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751403Ab0BLW4I (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:56:08 -0500 Received: by ywh9 with SMTP id 9so2979096ywh.19 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:56:06 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=/T4UP0srCz1yC8TqekJ96NaA1vJxnuqa9Qc8sF3nBts=; b=YgDjZGIC3Xsi66lSr/oR0E6AUCWpnTsWtCLRBnyXGWy+dmjo3JSvDgil+DpAUbaUXX lkc95+GKMPjnQAQTMRPk3AQFKHIIRy5X6JZ/Yh+jSfjYoR//jm4xovVHkNqRh82FOT0i E4UeIkuXFTtRzA3alt6vxofYDfKOIemzOoe1A= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=lwF1EGUPD/K5ZCw42EkFJLZDafHJx7fGfTKpaid/mN3TJewU8J3Bmm74iZ4jvPRhst MUCF6nPn9pDn0boMdtAICEe7OBMUxXtddrzqVBnemu4jRGcoDVE8mtRS9KB9F1sapxCS k/QYz2VfJ2ZAb0XJW4ljb8rWmHvUa51im4k8w= Received: by 10.150.120.42 with SMTP id s42mr3324839ybc.91.1266015366127; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:56:06 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 2010/2/12 Vladimir Panteleev : > 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