Re: branch description as a note?

From: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: Dec 11, 2024, 17:37 UTC
Message-ID: <sem23vxg5c3xc62wvy5qn6gvoh6hc6m75mx35zgwsdyw36oexm@ayfez6uqghtt>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq4j3ai4it.fsf@gitster.g>

On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 01:11:06AM +0900, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> > Now my problem with the description being a local configuration, is that
> > I often work on patches on two different computers. I can easily share my patch
> > notes with myself, but not the branch description. If these could be pushed and
> > fetched like a note, I think that would open up some other nice possibilities
> > as well, like having a standard place for MR/PR messages for forges, sharing
> > proposed merge commit messages, maybe other things.
> 
> If this is about draft work, I would use an empty commit at the tip
> of the branch.

I think this was discussed a while back: https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqilnr1hff.fsf@gitster.g/

I think it boiled down to having a merge commit at the tip that would indicate the base-commit of the WIP range. I still think it's an awesome idea if something like this was natively supported by git tools.

-K