From: David Woodhouse Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:52:45 GMT Subject: Re: [git patches] libata updates, GPG signed (but see admin notes) Message-ID: <1320933165.17392.24.camel@i7.infradead.org> In-Reply-To: On Tue, 2011-11-01 at 14:21 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > I hate how anonymous our branches are. Sure, we can use good names for > them, but it was a mistake to think we should describe the repository > (for gitweb), rather than the branch. > > Ok, "hate" is a strong word. I don't "hate" it. I don't even think > it's a major design issue. But I do think that it would have been > nicer if we had had some branch description model. I actually quite like it. I take it as a hint: if the contents of a branch are *so* wildly different from the main repository that they need a different description, perhaps I should be using a separate repository instead of just a branch. -- dwmw2