Re: Deriving release notes from git commit messages

On Sunday, July 03, 2011 06:46:15 PM Tom Lane wrote:
> A look at the git-notes man page says that you can only have one note
> per commit, but you can edit that note, and git does track the revision
> history of each note.
>
> I think that we should adopt "git notes" as a better solution than
> making dummy whitespace changes when we want to put a commit-message
> correction into the commit history (you listening, Bruce?).
There is git commit --allow-empty btw

> But as Robert says, this still leaves the committers as the gatekeepers
> for the information, so it's not clear to me that this is a good way to
> solve the problems that Greg was talking about originally. I'd rather
> have a solution that offloads the work from the committers.
I don't think its that hard to write a hook which allows notes changes for a
different set of people than source changes.
Whether the people wanting to annotate commits are ok with using git I do not
know.

Andres