From: Jeff King Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 20:53:19 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] A handful of "branch description" patches Message-ID: <20110923205319.GA28802@sigill.intra.peff.net> In-Reply-To: <7vk48zt211.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 01:52:10PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > A more fundamental issue I have with this is that names of the refs are > local by nature (what I call "master" branch is not "master" to you, but > rather it is "origin/master" or "jch/master") while notes is meant to be > the mechanism to share. The following shares the same issue, but at least > it does not abuse "notes", so in that sense it may be cleaner at the > design level... Good point. For that reason, your config-based solution perhaps makes more sense. -Peff