Re: branch description as a note?

> Hi,
>
> so I've been wondering about branch descriptions being just a local
> configuration. The only use-case I know for them is generating cover letters
> and request-pull, although I could imagine maybe the maintainer uses branch
> descriptions for storing the - well - branch descriptions for the "What's
> cooking" emails and the merge commit messages.
>
> Now my problem with the description being a local configuration, is that
> I often work on patches on two different computers. I can easily share my patch
> notes with myself, but not the branch description. If these could be pushed and
> fetched like a note, I think that would open up some other nice possibilities
> as well, like having a standard place for MR/PR messages for forges, sharing
> proposed merge commit messages, maybe other things.
>
> For my personal issue of sharing branch descriptions with myself, I could
> probably just make up a convention for myself, say using refs/notes/branches,
> but it would be nice to have this built in, instead of the local config branch
> description.
>
> From usage perspective I could imagine a new `--branch` flag for notes, which
> would tell `git notes` to operate on notes attached to branches instead of
> specific commits, probably stored under refs/notes/branches by default. Maybe
> add an `--edit-branch-note` to `git branch`. And of course have the option to
> use this note instead of the description configuration wherever it makes sense.