From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:03:31 GMT Subject: Re: FEATURE REQUEST: Comment assignment on branches Message-ID: <7vljdsu7kc.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Miles Bader writes: > Junio C Hamano writes: >> My understanding is that it is more like: >> >> [branch "frotz"] >> comment = "This is to add frotz command to the system" >> >> I do not have a fundamental objection to such a feature, but the >> presentation needs to be well thought out. > > This would seem especially useful for publicly visible branches... If you mean by "publicly visible" branches in public repositories, I suspect not. At places like repo.or.cz, github, or installations managed by gitosis, you typically do not have direct access to $GIT_DIR/config files (they belong to site administrators) in your repositories, and that is not likely to change for security reasons.