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From: David Soria Parra <sn_@gmx.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Rotem Yaari <vmalloc@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Feature Request: Branch Annotations
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 01:20:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48ED404C.2000405@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vwsgiptph.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>


> Haven't people watched Linus on google tech talk?  Here is an excerpt from
> the transcript (http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/LinusTalk200705Transcript):
> 
>     ... well actually you shouldn't call it "test", you should basically
>     name your branches the way you name your functions, you should call
>     them something short and sweet and to the point -- What is that branch
>     doing.
> 
> IOW, why did you name the branch "ds/fix" and not "ds/fix-bla"?

Okay I just choosed a bad example. Actually I call it ds/fix-function, 
but nevertheless more additional description can be useful when dealing 
with a lot of branches. But yes, there might be porcelains that can do that.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-08 23:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <d2115f4f0810080341m27c4ca9bv9b1e9b66704ef3fa@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found] ` <d2115f4f0810080348t62e18b14x1dfe798974332b05@mail.gmail.com>
2008-10-08 10:49   ` Feature Request: Branch Annotations Rotem Yaari
2008-10-08 10:55     ` Thomas Adam
2008-10-08 11:41       ` Baz
2008-10-08 12:08         ` Marc Weber
2008-10-08 13:29     ` David Soria Parra
2008-10-08 23:12       ` Junio C Hamano
2008-10-08 23:20         ` David Soria Parra [this message]
2008-10-08 23:21         ` Avery Pennarun
2008-10-09  0:20           ` Miklos Vajna
2008-10-10  8:24           ` Peter Krefting

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