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A common use of git notes is tacking metadata onto commits.

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 log1.

But git notes enable you to amend new information about old commits in a special namespace. And they’re capable of so much more.


The article has an answer to this in the second paragraph.