Git Notes: git's coolest, most unloved feature
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Once a commit cements itself in git’s history—that’s it. It’s impossible to amend a commit message buried deep in a repo’s log.
But git notes enable you to amend new information about old commits in a special namespace. And they’re capable of so much more.
Notes stow metadata about anything tracked by git—any object: commits, blobs, and trees. All without futzing with the object itself.