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From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: FEATURE REQUEST: Comment assignment on branches
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:20:54 +0900
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On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wro=
te:
>> This would seem especially useful for publicly visible branches...
>
> If you mean by "publicly visible" branches in public repositories, I
> suspect not. =A0At places like repo.or.cz, github, or installations m=
anaged
> by gitosis, you typically do not have direct access to $GIT_DIR/confi=
g
> files (they belong to site administrators) in your repositories, and =
that
> is not likely to change for security reasons.

Hm, ok you're right... which is a shame... :(

'cause a "pushable branch description" would be ace!

[I take it git has no "limited remote metadata change" function...?]

-Miles

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