From: "Kristoffer Haugsbakk" <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail•com>
To: "Rune Philosof" <rp@abtion•com>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Feature Request: Add comments to commits
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2025 12:32:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a0c393df-a23c-49e0-8985-4748e1769a62@app.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAL8J5gbKu7qB8Byg82CGqtrYK0gm4gf5V=qrc7npzAoF+kAXJA@mail.gmail.com>
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)
> 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/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-08-27 10:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-08-27 10:29 Feature Request: Add comments to commits Rune Philosof
2025-08-27 10:32 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk [this message]
2025-08-27 16:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-08-27 20:25 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
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