From: Joel Reed <jreed@lantekcs.com>
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 12:58:56 GMT
Subject: RE: git branch descriptions
Message-ID: <657A681BEF27534399890012B8C8E50E1AD63D2268@lcs-exchange01.Lantekcs.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimhCBNyJv6b9AT578AC4H1_zsB2CgfsrveNpNNE@mail.gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

> > I like to keep branch names short so they're easy to switch to and
> > from, but being able to attach a description that would display when
> > doing a "git branch" would be a huge help.
> 
> Or you could just use long branch names coupled with bash completion
> (or something like that) so it isn't hard to switch between branches
> with long names.
> 
> I use branch names that are long enough so that I can tell what
> they're for by looking at the name, using them isn't a pain due to
> bash/magit completion.

Good point, perhaps for now I should use branch.names.like.this

jr