Re: Feature request: Store comments on branches

On Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 15:37:03 (+0200) Patrick Schoenfeld writes:

Hi,

I regulary work with various branches, that I call by the number
of an associated bug tracking / support tracking number. That
makes it clear to which ticket a given branch belongs.
In this case I would find it very useful, if I could associate
short comments with a branch, which would be shown when
doing a 'git branch'. This way I could see what this branch
about, without looking up the ticket information.

Obvious the workaround is to name the branches different,
but this is sometimes not convenient and may result in quiet
long branch names.

For now, we do just this.  We use Jira for bug reporting.  When we
create a new Jira bug, we use the Jira Id as the base and then tack on
a short suffix:

% git checkout -b ADM-417_service_deploy_race_condition

We are also working on tools that would, among other things, obviate
this.  For example:

% git branch
* ADM-417
ADM-312
master

% jira describe
ADM-417: Service deployments have logging race condition on first start

% jira describe -l ADM-312
ADM-312: Portal permissions set incorrectly for WEP users
Description: The portal permissions get whacked whenever ...
Assigned To: John Smith [off-list ref]
Status: In Progress
[...]

The 'jira' command just connects to our Jira server and performs
actions directly on the Jira server for current or whichever branch,
etc.


Bill