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by aerovistae 1299 days ago
I had never heard of this feature before but I'm having a hard time seeing why it's useful. It doesn't seem to add anything substantial beyond what a commit message already allows.
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I feel like you may have missed a salient section in the blog post. Here's one sentence from that section:

> 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.

It’s rarely seen but possible to https://git-scm.com/docs/git-replace a commit and keep its SHA.