From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Baz Subject: Re: Feature Request: Branch Annotations Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 12:41:43 +0100 Message-ID: <2faad3050810080441sdb1b29bxe92c467c2dd9a908@mail.gmail.com> References: <18071eea0810080355g743c7bbfq9d7d39c9a76eb59d@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Rotem Yaari" , git@vger.kernel.org To: "Thomas Adam" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Oct 08 13:43:16 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KnXRj-0001iJ-M7 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:43:16 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752618AbYJHLlq (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Oct 2008 07:41:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750999AbYJHLlp (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Oct 2008 07:41:45 -0400 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.191]:40319 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750781AbYJHLlp (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Oct 2008 07:41:45 -0400 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id d3so1536048nfc.21 for ; Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:41:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=177Pf/I6AZBTV4YiC9a8vfBtxWbBiXm65YZLnrCkLOg=; b=xhJfMl3p/OznRvV1PL9Zibt6bqbI6xclRzbXUZIwXj7lXV5/a3XTckyZPhJk5LHsgc sZdkzJf8+ZZhHIfs9utuCIlZ3X3wEoJfNdZCU27cP3xmXOfhV0lKQfsqc3Uy8VkUHM0x QQWA/4NKZrNbc0nu2FjIryC2hUuh2sy0G6Gp0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=FDKh1a5nK6Hy5it6/Ep1ey9ri9vIqGUbFRpGv+ecQn7RfH1NY6sczzVIo3I2hiTtRp +8UpYXP0jTlil3023fkLNcGg1Hn3zqK+7R8S1GqoB30mcxBYoQBQhore8TN5aezEnhtW QPZzTduvOrPlz8+lwC+rTIQjW2pcz7t4DaXh0= Received: by 10.103.249.7 with SMTP id b7mr4376610mus.2.1223466103241; Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:41:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.103.141.13 with HTTP; Wed, 8 Oct 2008 04:41:43 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <18071eea0810080355g743c7bbfq9d7d39c9a76eb59d@mail.gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 2008/10/8 Thomas Adam : > 2008/10/8 Rotem Yaari : >> Hi, >> >> I usually work with many branches in git, each of which represents a >> different state of development/stability, but also development tasks >> assigned to me. >> Sometimes, besides the name of the branch, it could be useful to have >> a short description of a branch which quickly reminds me what that >> branch is intended for. >> >> Currently I see no way in git to achieve this (there's a description >> for a repository, but not for individual branches). >> >> Any opinions on this? > > Wasn't this discussed here before, with a prototype? ISTR it was, but > dropped due to lack of interest? Have a look through the archives. The most recent thread was 'branch description' back in April, which discussed alternatives, but petered out: http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2008/4/15/1442684/thread An older thread on 'topic descriptions' where Junio described his use of the config file for this: http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2006/12/6/232466/thread And there's a similar feature in stgit, which uses the same config setting that Junio did: http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2007/5/14/246358 http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2007/4/12/243404 -Baz > > -- Thomas Adam > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >