From: Michael Schubert <mschub@elegosoft.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:14:45 GMT
Subject: Re: More support on branch description?
Message-ID: <4F183365.5010607@elegosoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8D0_EB6jN7KxpzLtnPnj0HjdU6sNHJRyqXJf-2-ZNatFA@mail.gmail.com>

On 01/19/2012 03:14 PM, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
> The coming v1.7.9 will introduce branch description, mainly used in
> integration process. I think we could make it useful for users who
> don't extensively use request-pull/format-patch. Showing a short
> summary along with branch name in "git branch" would be nice. "branch
> -v" is already used for something else, maybe we can come up with
> another option, or "-v -v"? Another place we could show branch
> description is "git status". What do you think?

Junio suggested a new option "--verbose-format" for branch some weeks
ago:

	http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/186727

I planned on working on it, but haven't found the time yet nor do I
really know which way to go.? (pretty.c seems to be the right
place for format code, but it's very commit format specific atm.)