Re: Feature request: Store comments on branches

From: Howard Miller <howard@e-learndesign.co.uk>
Date: Oct 21, 2009, 13:48 UTC
Message-ID: <26ae428a0910210648l11751185mbccbf53f3d467de2@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20091021133702.GA470@lisa>

2009/10/21 Patrick Schoenfeld <schoenfeld@debian.org>:

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> Hi,
>
> I regulary work with various branches, that I call by the number
> of an associated bug tracking / support tracking number. That
> makes it clear to which ticket a given branch belongs.
> In this case I would find it very useful, if I could associate
> short comments with a branch, which would be shown when
> doing a 'git branch'. This way I could see what this branch
> about, without looking up the ticket information.
>
> Obvious the workaround is to name the branches different,
> but this is sometimes not convenient and may result in quiet
> long branch names.
>
> What do others think about this? Would this be useful
> for others, too?

Definitely +1.

Even on a much more simplistic level (and speaking as a relative newbie) I feel it's an important feature missing. It's terribly easy in the fog of working on several different projects to remember what all the branches really are. It is just human nature that you think it makes perfect sense at the time but in a couple of weeks time you can't find the branch you want from three or four similar ones. A comments field for branches would be very helpful.

Howard