* Feature Request: Add comments to commits
@ 2025-08-27 10:29 Rune Philosof
2025-08-27 10:32 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
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From: Rune Philosof @ 2025-08-27 10:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: git
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.
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.
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* Re: Feature Request: Add comments to commits
2025-08-27 10:29 Feature Request: Add comments to commits Rune Philosof
@ 2025-08-27 10:32 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2025-08-27 16:53 ` Junio C Hamano
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From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk @ 2025-08-27 10:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Rune Philosof, git
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/
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* Re: Feature Request: Add comments to commits
2025-08-27 10:32 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
@ 2025-08-27 16:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-08-27 20:25 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Junio C Hamano @ 2025-08-27 16:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Kristoffer Haugsbakk; +Cc: Rune Philosof, git
"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>]".
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* Re: Feature Request: Add comments to commits
2025-08-27 16:53 ` Junio C Hamano
@ 2025-08-27 20:25 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk @ 2025-08-27 20:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Junio C Hamano; +Cc: Rune Philosof, git
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. ;)
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