Re: FEATURE REQUEST: Comment assignment on branches

From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 16, 2010, 14:36 UTC
Message-ID: <fcaeb9bf1003160736w7749f358p6ee8f86e6c3a32c6@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4B9EA22E.1010103@lsrfire.ath.cx>

On 3/16/10, René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> wrote:

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> Am 15.03.2010 09:33, schrieb Maxim Treskin:
>
> > Hello
>  >
>  > Is it possible to add comments assignment to branches?
>  > Something like:
>  >
>  > $ git branch --comment="New branch with implementation of some features" br14
>  >
>  > $ git branch
>  >   br14
>  > * master
>  >
>  > $ git branch --comments
>  >   br14           (New branch with implementation of some features)
>  > * master
>  >
>  > and when configuration variable branch.comments == true, this behavior
>  > is default.
>
>
> Hmm.  You could name your branch
>  "br14/new-branch-with-implementation-of-some-features" instead of
>  "br14".  With command line completion you would only have to hit two
>  extra keys (slash tab) and could enjoy a meaningful branch name everywhere.

If only completion works across shells. Another idea: put notes in a blob, tagged with "notes/branchname" or another convention.

Then if you want to see description of branch "br14", do "git show notes/br14". Teaching "git branch" to show it is easy.

-- 
Duy