Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] branch: add prefixes to new branch names

From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Mar 7, 2026, 07:05 UTC
Message-ID: <CAPig+cQu92SNS9mamfEwfdZMgqHeDh4Qn7HExgB9OzFiTZTHtA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <pull.2202.v3.git.git.1772802872.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

On Fri, Mar 6, 2026 at 8:14 AM Yoann Valeri via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> wrote:

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> This PR adds a way to add prefixes to a new branch being created. The goal
> is mostly to ease the developer process of creating new branches by adding
> shortcuts that can be set either with a command-line option or with
> configuration parameter. This is useful especially when you have to do
> similar backports on multiple branches, removing a bit of the need for
> finding names or typing the names over and over again.

Sorry, but I'm having trouble understanding the value of this patch series. Neither the cover letter nor the patches themselves provide enough context to really understand how this feature would be helpful. Adding some real-world examples of how this simplifies your workflow *might* help sell the idea. Without such examples, it's difficult to imagine that you can't achieve the same with some simple aliases or tooling/scripting on your side.

My other concern is that this implementation is too special-case by assuming that users will only want to apply the "special value" as a prefix. It is easy to imagine some users instead wanting the special value added as a suffix or embedded. As such, a (possibly) more palatable implementation (assuming this feature is even desirable at all) might be to instead allow the user to specify some sort of format string into which the special value (or values) is interpolated.