Re: git format-patch should honor notes

[Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>]

On Wednesday 08 December 2010, Michael J Gruber wrote:
> Also, in order to be really useful, I would need a place to store the
> cover letter also. I was experimenting a while back with a design for
> annotating branchnames which "basically" worked but haven't had time
> to really implement it. If I remember correctly, I had to set up some
> "bogus" refs to keep my notes from being garbage collected and was
> still figuring out the best place to put them. I'll dig it up when I
> have time to.

I believe the last time the issue of adding notes to branch names was 
discussed, the consensus was that rather than using notes, they could 
be stored using a custom entry in the config file, e.g.

  git config branch.mybranch.description "Description of mybranch"

I might have misremembered this, though.


...Johan

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