Git Version Control Cookbook - Second Edition

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So, you have your notes for your commit and now you want to add to them. You will perhaps expect that you just add the note again with more information. This is not the case. You have the option to append, edit, or force the note to be created:

1. Start by trying to add the note again with additional information:

$ git notes add -m "Update MANIFESTS files for next version"
error: Cannot add notes. Found existing notes for object f839d383e6fbbda26729db7
fd57fc917fa47db44. Use '-f' to overwrite existing notes

2. As predicted, we cannot add the note but we can do it with the -f flag:

$ git notes add -f -m "Update MANIFESTS files for next version"
Overwriting existing notes for object f839d383e6fbbda26729db7fd57fc917fa47db44