From: Russ Dill Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:31:06 GMT Subject: Re: branch description Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <9b3e2dc20804150951scf8b3c7x26f3a56eab1f9840@mail.gmail.com> > I find it useful to use fairly short names for branches. However, > sometimes I would like to have a full sentence to actually describe > what the branch is for, without having the peruse the actual commits. Me too. > This information could of course be kept on a web page, but it would > be nice to have it in the repo. Like, putting your bug number in the branch name. > Is there any such branch annotation command? > Ideally I'd like to see a sentence displayed next to the branch name > when I use "git-branch". > Perhaps, git-branch --info or something. The problem is that a branch is just a floating name for a line of development. Its not really a "thing" in the repository like a tag or a commit. You'd need to make some sort of special tag that describes the branch or somesuch.