[Development] Proposal: New branch model

[Edward Welbourne]

On 23.1.2019 17.51, Jedrzej Nowacki wrote:
>>    Can we use annotate instead of cherry-pick -x?
>>    ----------------------------------------------
>>
>>    No, but we should use it in addition. Annotations are mutable,
>> therefore are not 100% trust worthy. If we have both, we could
>> validate annotations against commit message, sadly it would not
>> protect against annotation removal.

Kari Oikarinen (24 January 2019 11:37)
> What are these annotations? I tried to google them but only found
> documentation for git-annotate, which is just git-blame with a
> different output format.

They're actually called git "notes" (or "object notes");
see man git-notes.

	Eddy.