RE: Recording the current branch on each commit?

Personally, I am _strongly_ opposed.  How I name and juggle my private
branches is nobody else's business in a distributed version control
system.

They are private.  My personal workflow.  Not part of a commit.

Mercurial inherits the branch label from previous commit, unless
it's specified by user, I think this could be quite reasonable behavior.
(if make them at all, I don't think this specific branch label feature
should be implemented in git core, but rather there should be a way
to extend git so that it makes them)

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Max