Chapter 5. Storing Additional Information in Your Repository
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Adding your first Git note
- Separating notes by category
- Retrieving notes from the remote repository
- Pushing Git notes to a remote repository
- Tagging commits in the repository
Introduction
Git is powerful in many ways. One of the most powerful features of Git is that it has immutable history. This is powerful because nobody can squeeze something into the history of Git without it being noticed by the people who have cloned the repository. This also causes some challenges for developers as some developers would like to change the commit messages after a commit has been released. This is a feature that is possible in many other version control ...
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