Re: branch description

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 9:33 PM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:

This got me thinking... It's a little crazy, but: since branch descriptions would essentially just be an extension of the branch name, play basically the same role and have the same requirements for storage, cloning, etc., what about using some syntax in the branch name itself to separate a "short name" and a "long name"..

That is, you could store it as, refs/heads/wip:work_in_progress

and git-branch would report,

wip

while git-branch --long would report the long names,

wip:work_in_progress

or could parse it to something more legible:

wip     "Work in progress"

Of course this would require modification to refspec-related code, which is likely more work than it's worth.. Hm, well just an idea anyways. Probably not a good idea to save meta-data in a filename.

Steve