From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 23:30:10 GMT
Subject: Re: Fwd: [Survey] Signed push
Message-ID: <CA+55aFxFnAjpSAd+uB25BuZXBJGvN59qNMmF3fzvky8XK_DP0A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <E9E05FA85D0F4461BAE9ECAFE25CD84E@PhilipOakley>

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> wrote:
>
> Is one option to store the branch description (if any) on line two of the
> <branch name> file in .git\refs\heads.

Or even on line one.

We already basically do that for the magic FETCH_HEAD branch, and use
it to populate the merge commit. Extending that kind of thing to all
branches might be a nice idea.

Of course, then the question becomes "what about packed refs"? Do you
just leave the unpacked ref in place for those?

                          Linus