Re: Feature request: Store comments on branches

From: Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com>
Date: Oct 21, 2009, 15:05 UTC
Message-ID: <19167.8999.927157.455014@lisa.zopyra.com>
In-Reply-To: <20091021133702.GA470@lisa>

On Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 15:37:03 (+0200) Patrick Schoenfeld writes:

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>Hi,
>
>I regulary work with various branches, that I call by the number
>of an associated bug tracking / support tracking number. That
>makes it clear to which ticket a given branch belongs.
>In this case I would find it very useful, if I could associate
>short comments with a branch, which would be shown when
>doing a 'git branch'. This way I could see what this branch
>about, without looking up the ticket information.
>
>Obvious the workaround is to name the branches different,
>but this is sometimes not convenient and may result in quiet
>long branch names.

For now, we do just this. We use Jira for bug reporting. When we create a new Jira bug, we use the Jira Id as the base and then tack on a short suffix:

% git checkout -b ADM-417_service_deploy_race_condition

We are also working on tools that would, among other things, obviate this. For example:

% git branch
* ADM-417
ADM-312
master

% jira describe
ADM-417: Service deployments have logging race condition on first start

% jira describe -l ADM-312
ADM-312: Portal permissions set incorrectly for WEP users
Description: The portal permissions get whacked whenever ...
Assigned To: John Smith <jsmith@ourhouse.com>
Status: In Progress
[...]

The 'jira' command just connects to our Jira server and performs actions directly on the Jira server for current or whichever branch, etc.

Bill