From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2006 22:15:16 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] just an (stupid) idea when creating a new branch
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0607090011000.29667@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <e8p8pj$jk3$2@sea.gmane.org>

Hi,

On Sat, 8 Jul 2006, Jakub Narebski wrote:

> moreau francis wrote:
> 
> > Hi GIT folks.
> > 
> > I'm a complete newbie on git development so excuse me if
> > this idea is completely stupid.
> > 
> > Would it be possible to let the user stick a short explanation
> > on  what a branch is supposed to implement during its creation.
> 
> It would be possible when/if branch and remotes config would migrate
> to .git/config. Currently too many I think relies on refs/heads being
> simple sha1 of "top" commit.

But it does not need a change of existing practice at all! Just add the 
information provided by --topic as branch."pathname".description to the 
config. And make format-patch aware of that.

Ciao,
Dscho