Re: Workflow to accumulate individual changes?

[Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>]

Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> writes:
>On 2010-01-01 14:18 (-0500), Karl Fogel wrote:
>> IIUC, in git the commit message is *not* part of the change's
>> identity, it's just attached to the change, so you can edit the
>> message later.
>
>That's wrong--or your "change's identity" means something I don't
>understand. In Git commit's author, committer, date, parent commits'
>SHA1s, referenced tree object's SHA1 and commit message together make
>the content of a commit object. From this content is calculated the SHA1
>of that commit object. If you change any of these the SHA1 of the commit
>object will be different and hence the whole commit object will be
>different (i.e. its identity is different).

Someone -- whom I thought would know -- specifically told me that the
commit message is *not* part of the SHA1 of the commit object.  I double
checked, because this was surprising to me, and they confirmed.

But either they were wrong, or I misunderstood, or possibly both.  In
any case, I'm sorry for spreading misinformation.

>There is a related feature, though. New Git versions have "git notes"
>command which allows user to add additional notes to commits. Such extra
>notes can be added and removed freely and "git log" prints them after
>the commit message. Notes can be sent between repositories but currently
>it doesn't happen automatically with usual pull/push commands.
>
>http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-notes.html

Maybe this is what the person thought I was talking about.

-K