Re: [PATCH] fmt-merge-msg: use branch.$name.description

Michael J Gruber wrote:

Jonathan Nieder venit, vidit, dixit 07.10.2011 12:06:

quoted

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/181953/focus=182000

Funny to point me at a thread I participated in, when I'm saying this
thread should have continued there ;)

Ah, sorry, I wasn't trying to initiate a debate.  I provided the
pointer to save time for others who haven't looked up the thread
you were referring to yet.

I am surprised that you seem to have missed what I meant by "branch
names are local".  I meant that what I call "master" is likely to be
very different from what you call "master".  Yes, we share commits and
fetch them from each other, and I might even _decide_ that what I call
"master" will be similar to what you call "master".  Luckily, in
practice people don't seem to feel constrained to decide so, and there
are many workflows where my "master" is not your "master" and does not
even contain commits that would be acceptable for your "master".

This matters, a lot, because there is no easy way to partition a
namespace of names descriptive for humans without a central authority
to negotiate conflicts.