From 14bae62fd347cc2d2abcc96e3b65e78616a0e60f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Seaton <alex.seaton@man.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2024 13:14:35 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add comment

---
 cpp/arcticdb/codec/codec.cpp | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/cpp/arcticdb/codec/codec.cpp b/cpp/arcticdb/codec/codec.cpp
index 72e125428c..b2674dc35e 100644
--- a/cpp/arcticdb/codec/codec.cpp
+++ b/cpp/arcticdb/codec/codec.cpp
@@ -245,6 +245,8 @@ TimeseriesDescriptor unpack_timeseries_descriptor_from_proto(
 
     auto tsd = timeseries_descriptor_from_any(any);
     if (is_decoding_incompletes) {
+        // Prefer the stream descriptor on the segment header for incompletes.
+        // See PR #1647.
         arcticc::pb2::descriptors_pb2::StreamDescriptor desc_proto;
         copy_stream_descriptor_to_proto(stream_desc, desc_proto);
         tsd.mutable_stream_descriptor()->CopyFrom(desc_proto);