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From: Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se>
To: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	David Soria Parra <sn_@gmx.net>, Rotem Yaari <vmalloc@gmail.com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Feature Request: Branch Annotations
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:24:08 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0810100922180.10709@ds9.cixit.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <32541b130810081621k32493e20occba9cd97671775d@mail.gmail.com>

Avery Pennarun:

> I guess bash completions would help with this (if you're using bash),
> but even then it's kind of unreasonable to name branches something
> like "bug-111234-widget-performance-improvements-for-customer-x",
> which is the sort of information that would be awfully helpful two
> months later when you're looking at old unmerged branches.

That's exactly what I do for one of the projects I am working on (well,
minus the "bug-" prefix, that's implied). Bash completion works quite
well for that, and the merge commits do give meaningful information.

But I would still like to be able to annotate it. Especially for
long-living bug-fix branches, it could be useful to be able to add
describe a branch with what state it is in, for instance.

-- 
\\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/

      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-10-10  8:25 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
2008-10-08 23:21         ` Avery Pennarun
2008-10-09  0:20           ` Miklos Vajna
2008-10-10  8:24           ` Peter Krefting [this message]

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