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Re: Topic descriptions

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APAndy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 7, 2006, 08:37 UTC
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On Wednesday 2006, December 06 22:31, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> I am unlikely to use such a thing for the "What's in" message,
> though.  The part that talks about "what the current status is"
> is much easier to write when I need to talk about "the current";
> otherwise I'd be forced to remember to think if I need to update
> the information, every time I touch topic branches.

It wasn't so much the what's current - as you say that would be fairly ridiculous as it's so fluid. It was more a description of the topic. I've got tonnes of branches where I have quickly thought of an idea and started work on it, only to get bored and move on. Describing a topic in such a short space as "ap/short-name" is hard.

The actual place it's stored isn't really relevant, more that I could see a use for it. If it's going in the config I suppose all it needs is a magic "and so it shall be" hand wave. It doesn't require any new code does it?

Andy
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Dr Andrew Parkins, M Eng (Hons), AMIEE
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  3. Andy ParkinsDec 7, 2006
  4. Junio C HamanoDec 7, 2006
  5. Robin RosenbergDec 7, 2006
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