From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: Feature Request: Branch Annotations Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:12:26 -0700 Message-ID: <7vwsgiptph.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <48ECB5CB.4010703@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Rotem Yaari , git@vger.kernel.org To: David Soria Parra X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Oct 09 01:14:18 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 1KniET-0005zd-86 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 01:14:17 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757110AbYJHXMk (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Oct 2008 19:12:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757054AbYJHXMj (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Oct 2008 19:12:39 -0400 Received: from a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([207.106.133.19]:40543 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756965AbYJHXMh (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Oct 2008 19:12:37 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB9096BCF7; Wed, 8 Oct 2008 19:12:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (ip68-225-240-211.oc.oc.cox.net [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 317A06BCF6; Wed, 8 Oct 2008 19:12:27 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <48ECB5CB.4010703@gmx.net> (David Soria Parra's message of "Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:29:47 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 97FD95EA-958E-11DD-BD3A-9364E785EAEE-77302942!a-sasl-fastnet.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: David Soria Parra writes: >> Any opinions on this? > > would be great to have something like that build in git-core like > > git branch -i 'Fix bla' ds/fix next > git branch -i > ds/fix (Fix Bla) 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"?