From: Miklos Vajna Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:20:19 GMT Subject: Re: Feature Request: Branch Annotations 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 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... ;-)