From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:35397 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751551Ab0AUDJo (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:09:44 -0500 Message-ID: <4B57C572.4070407@infradead.org> Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:09:38 -0200 From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Trent Piepho CC: Johannes Stezenbach , Linux Media Mailing List , Douglas Landgraf Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git tree repositories References: <4B55445A.10300@infradead.org> <20100119215938.GA10958@linuxtv.org> <4B57B9A1.5080506@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Trent Piepho wrote: > On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: >>> OTOH, since with git it is common to have multiple branches >>> within one repository, I'm not sure how it works. It would >>> be cool if git would support per-branch descriptions, >>> and git web could display them. >> I don't think git supports it. In kernel.org, people prefer to >> use more than one repository when they have more than one >> need. > > stgit lets me set descriptions for each branch. The descriptions are there > under the branch in the config file. I don't think git-branch shows any > kind of description for the branch. stgit is a very interesting git porcelain. I used it a lot when I started with git. It were very useful at the time git weren't implementing tools like rebase. However, stgit produces objects that aren't referenced, generating errors when you run "git fsck". So, I don't recomend using stgit anymore. Cheers, Mauro