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Re: FEATURE REQUEST: Comment assignment on branches

From
Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date
Mar 16, 2010, 07:33 UTC
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Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> writes:
> Which is also why I think it would be nice if we could teach notes to
> annotate branches/tags/the whole shaboodle. I really think that a
> generic way to annotate something under /refs/ would be useful.
meetoo.

Today, we have .git/description which is used by gitweb (and others?) to say what the repository contains. That would be nice to have the same thing for branches. Take http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git;a=summary for example: commits have a comment, tag have a comment, and branches just say:

10 hours ago man shortlog | log | tree 10 hours ago html shortlog | log | tree 22 hours ago pu shortlog | log | tree 22 hours ago next shortlog | log | tree 23 hours ago master shortlog | log | tree 2 days ago maint shortlog | log | tree 5 days ago todo shortlog | log | tree

A newbie will have a hard time understanding what "pu" means, while a one-liner saying (proposed update, may be rewound at any time) would give most of the required information. Actually, ideally, this could be a message like commit message (i.e. one-liner, blank line, and body).

(My 2 cents)

-- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/

Previous: Sverre Rabbelier
Message 13 of 13 in “FEATURE REQUEST: Comment assignment on branches”
  1. Maxim TreskinMar 15, 2010
  2. René ScharfeMar 15, 2010
  3. Junio C HamanoMar 15, 2010
  4. Mark LodatoMar 16, 2010
  5. Junio C HamanoMar 16, 2010
  6. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyMar 16, 2010
  7. Nicolas SebrechtMar 15, 2010
  8. Junio C HamanoMar 15, 2010
  9. Miles BaderMar 16, 2010
  10. Junio C HamanoMar 16, 2010
  11. Miles BaderMar 16, 2010
  12. Sverre RabbelierMar 16, 2010
  13. Matthieu MoyMar 16, 2010

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