Re: Feature Request: Branch Annotations

From: Baz <brian.ewins@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 8, 2008, 11:41 UTC
Message-ID: <2faad3050810080441sdb1b29bxe92c467c2dd9a908@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <18071eea0810080355g743c7bbfq9d7d39c9a76eb59d@mail.gmail.com>

2008/10/8 Thomas Adam <thomas.adam22@gmail.com>:

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> 2008/10/8 Rotem Yaari <vmalloc@gmail.com>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I usually work with many branches in git, each of which represents a
>> different state of development/stability, but also development tasks
>> assigned to me.
>> Sometimes, besides the name of the branch, it could be useful to have
>> a short description of a branch which quickly reminds me what that
>> branch is intended for.
>>
>> Currently I see no way in git to achieve this (there's a description
>> for a repository, but not for individual branches).
>>
>> Any opinions on this?
>
> Wasn't this discussed here before, with a prototype?  ISTR it was, but
> dropped due to lack of interest?  Have a look through the archives.

The most recent thread was 'branch description' back in April, which discussed alternatives, but petered out: http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2008/4/15/1442684/thread

An older thread on 'topic descriptions' where Junio described his use of the config file for this: http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2006/12/6/232466/thread

And there's a similar feature in stgit, which uses the same config setting that Junio did: http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2007/5/14/246358 http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2007/4/12/243404

-Baz

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