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Re: Feature Request: Branch Annotations

From
Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Date
Oct 9, 2008, 00:20 UTC
Message-ID
<20081009002019.GQ536@genesis.frugalware.org>
In-Reply-To
<32541b130810081621k32493e20occba9cd97671775d@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 07:21:33PM -0400, Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com> wrote:
> I guess bash completions would help with this (if you're using bash),
> but even then it's kind of unreasonable to name branches something
> like "bug-111234-widget-performance-improvements-for-customer-x",
I think you haven't read the links mentioned in the previous mail.

IIRC the thread had a suggestion about creating such a 'desc' branch, then you could just have a branch named 'fix' and you could do git show desc:fix to see its description.

Just use git as a filesystem, as it was originally designed... ;-)
Previous: Avery PennarunNext: Peter Krefting
Message 9 of 10 in “Feature Request: Branch Annotations”
  1. Rotem YaariOct 8, 2008
  2. Thomas AdamOct 8, 2008
  3. BazOct 8, 2008
  4. Marc WeberOct 8, 2008
  5. David Soria ParraOct 8, 2008
  6. Junio C HamanoOct 8, 2008
  7. David Soria ParraOct 8, 2008
  8. Avery PennarunOct 8, 2008
  9. Miklos VajnaOct 9, 2008
  10. Peter KreftingOct 10, 2008

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