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From: "Russ Dill" <russ.dill@gmail.com>
To: "Stephen Sinclair" <radarsat1@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: branch description
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:31:06 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f9d2a5e10804151031o1d09c1f9od0ad78dcf9b746c5@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9b3e2dc20804150951scf8b3c7x26f3a56eab1f9840@mail.gmail.com>

>  I find it useful to use fairly short names for branches.  However,
>  sometimes I would like to have a full sentence to actually describe
>  what the branch is for, without having the peruse the actual commits.

Me too.

>  This information could of course be kept on a web page, but it would
>  be nice to have it in the repo.

Like, putting your bug number in the branch name.

>  Is there any such branch annotation command?
>  Ideally I'd like to see a sentence displayed next to the branch name
>  when I use "git-branch".
>  Perhaps, git-branch --info or something.

The problem is that a branch is just a floating name for a line of
development. Its not really a "thing" in the repository like a tag or
a commit. You'd need to make some sort of special tag that describes
the branch or somesuch.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-15 17:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-15 16:51 branch description Stephen Sinclair
2008-04-15 17:31 ` Russ Dill [this message]
2008-04-15 18:01   ` Brian Gernhardt
2008-04-15 19:12     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-04-15 19:19       ` Jeff King
2008-04-15 22:37         ` Jeff King
2008-04-15 22:56           ` Junio C Hamano
2008-04-15 20:53       ` Stephen Sinclair
2008-04-15 21:04         ` Brian Gernhardt
2008-04-16  1:33       ` Jakub Narebski
2008-04-16  2:55         ` Jeff King
2008-04-16  3:28         ` Stephen Sinclair
2008-04-16  5:55           ` Mike Hommey
2008-04-16  3:46         ` Matt Graham
2008-04-16  8:29           ` Johan Herland
2008-04-18 21:58             ` Jakub Narebski
2008-04-19  9:18               ` Johan Herland
2008-04-19 17:43                 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-04-19 18:09                   ` Johan Herland
2008-04-19 21:05                 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-04-16  5:27         ` Junio C Hamano
2008-04-16 19:56           ` Jakub Narebski
2008-04-15 18:36   ` Jakub Narebski
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-04-22 17:57 Michael Dressel
2008-04-22 18:46 ` Johan Herland
2008-04-22 18:59 ` Jakub Narebski

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