branch annotations?

From: Tim Chase <git@tim.thechases.com>
Date: Nov 25, 2013, 14:46 UTC
Message-ID: <20131125084644.350bd4f7@bigbox.christie.dr>

Is there any way to associate some sort of note with a branch that would be shown when listing them? While I currently have things like "issue/QA-42", it would be nice to have a note associated with it so I could do something like

  $ git branch --show-notes
    issue/CR-88: make sure NoSQL engines support .CSV file backends
    issue/QA-31: add missile launch codes
  * issue/QA-42: support flying cars
    master

as I currently need to flip back and forth between my git/terminal and my issue-tracker to know that, if I need to be adding missile launch codes, I need to be working on QA-31. I know there are "note" features elsewhere for commits, and I know that git-branch supports showing the most recent commit (that's not always enough info to discern the branch's purpose).

Thanks for any ideas on how to ease this pain-point, :-)

-tkc