Stop re-flagging the same finding — without going silent

A reviewer that flags the same known issue on every run trains you to ignore it. The fix can't be "hide findings," because a tool that silently drops things is worse than one that nags. CommitBrief has two ways to accept a finding and move on — a per-developer baseline and an in-source suppression marker — and both are built so that what they remove is always counted, never quietly swallowed. The interesting part is how a finding keeps its identity when the code around it moves. TL;DR Baseline ( .commitbrief/baseline.json , gitignored): accept the current findings once; later runs drop anything whose fingerprint is already in the file. Inline suppression : a commitbrief-ignore: <reason> comment on or above a line removes that finding — and lives in committed source, so a reviewer sees it. A finding's fingerprint deliberately excludes its line number , so accepting it survives the code drifting up and down the file. Both are TRUE removals — they affect --fail-on and the JSON findings[] , not just the display — and both print what they removed. The limit. The baseline is per-developer, not a shared team policy; it quiets your runs, not CI's. The fingerprint that survives code drift The whole design rests on one question: when is a finding "the same finding" you already accepted? If the answer included the line number, a baseline would evaporate the moment you added an import above the issue. So it doesn't. A finding's identity is three fields, hashed: func normalizeTitle ( title string ) string { return strings . ToLower ( strings . Join ( strings . Fields ( title ), " " )) } func Fingerprint ( f render . Finding ) string { h := sha256 . New () h . Write ([] byte ( f . File )) h . Write ([] byte { 0 }) h . Write ([] byte ( f . Severity )) h . Write ([] byte { 0 }) h . Write ([] byte ( normalizeTitle ( f . Title ))) return hex . EncodeToString ( h . Sum ( nil )) } File, severity, and a normalized title — and nothing else. Line is out, so the same issue keeps its finger