Re: FEATURE REQUEST: Comment assignment on branches
From: Matthieu Moy <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:48:26
Sverre Rabbelier [off-list ref] writes:
Which is also why I think it would be nice if we could teach notes to annotate branches/tags/the whole shaboodle. I really think that a generic way to annotate something under /refs/ would be useful.
meetoo. Today, we have .git/description which is used by gitweb (and others?) to say what the repository contains. That would be nice to have the same thing for branches. Take http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git;a=summary for example: commits have a comment, tag have a comment, and branches just say: 10 hours ago man shortlog | log | tree 10 hours ago html shortlog | log | tree 22 hours ago pu shortlog | log | tree 22 hours ago next shortlog | log | tree 23 hours ago master shortlog | log | tree 2 days ago maint shortlog | log | tree 5 days ago todo shortlog | log | tree A newbie will have a hard time understanding what "pu" means, while a one-liner saying (proposed update, may be rewound at any time) would give most of the required information. Actually, ideally, this could be a message like commit message (i.e. one-liner, blank line, and body). (My 2 cents) -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/