When I'm programming I tend to create a lot of experimental branches to test my ideas before actually implementing them, and a lot of times I'll leave these branches in some half-state or with uncommitted changes. Then when I come back I've forgotten what I was doing and why. After running into exactly this problem earlier today, I started wondring if there was something built into Git that would give me a place to write notes to myself without committing.
Well, apparently there is: Git has built in notes!
According to the docs you can use the command git notes which:
Adds, removes, or reads notes attached to objects, without touching the objects themselves.
It's always exciting for me to discover a cool new tool, and even more so when I learn more about one I already use.
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