From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Robin Rosenberg Subject: Re: Topic descriptions Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 11:45:57 +0100 Organization: Dewire Message-ID: <200612071145.59071.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> References: <200612062153.30639.andyparkins@gmail.com> <7v4ps8y7un.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <200612070837.16412.andyparkins@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 10:44:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 In-Reply-To: <200612070837.16412.andyparkins@gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at dewire.com Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GsGjp-0001OI-DC for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 07 Dec 2006 11:44:25 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1032007AbWLGKnh (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Dec 2006 05:43:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760673AbWLGKnh (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Dec 2006 05:43:37 -0500 Received: from [83.140.172.130] ([83.140.172.130]:12342 "EHLO torino.dewire.com" rhost-flags-FAIL-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760613AbWLGKng (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Dec 2006 05:43:36 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by torino.dewire.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C289A803388; Thu, 7 Dec 2006 11:39:42 +0100 (CET) Received: from torino.dewire.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (torino [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 00384-07; Thu, 7 Dec 2006 11:39:42 +0100 (CET) Received: from lathund.dewire.com (lathund.dewire.com [10.1.2.238]) by torino.dewire.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 690338030A4; Thu, 7 Dec 2006 11:39:40 +0100 (CET) To: Andy Parkins Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org torsdag 07 december 2006 09:37 skrev Andy Parkins: > On Wednesday 2006, December 06 22:31, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > I am unlikely to use such a thing for the "What's in" message, > > though. The part that talks about "what the current status is" > > is much easier to write when I need to talk about "the current"; > > otherwise I'd be forced to remember to think if I need to update > > the information, every time I touch topic branches. > > It wasn't so much the what's current - as you say that would be fairly > ridiculous as it's so fluid. It was more a description of the topic. I've > got tonnes of branches where I have quickly thought of an idea and started > work on it, only to get bored and move on. Describing a topic in such a > short space as "ap/short-name" is hard. Your situation sounds similiar to mine, but I don't use regular git branches much. Rather I use stacked git instead. Stgit's patches can be though of as virtual branches. Instead of creating a dozen branches I have a dozen commits managed by stgit that I can choose from (and combine) easily, creating and destroying private "branches".