From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 22:31:28 GMT
Subject: Re: Topic descriptions
Message-ID: <7v4ps8y7un.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <200612062153.30639.andyparkins@gmail.com>

Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com> writes:

> -----
> <sha1>
> <anything at all>
> -----
>
> I don't know where the UI would go; but it would let Junio generate his what's 
> cooking emails with cat .git/refs/*/*

I think the right place to store that <anything at all>
information is per-branch configuration item.  Perhaps:

	[branch "ap/clone-origin"]
        description = we talk about what this thing does and \
        what the current status of it is.

I am unlikely to use such a thing for the "What's in" message,
though.  The part that talks about "what the current status is"
is much easier to write when I need to talk about "the current";
otherwise I'd be forced to remember to think if I need to update
the information, every time I touch topic branches.

But that description thing would be useful in gitweb, for
example.