On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 02:34:44PM -0700, Dan Rosen wrote: > Adding metadata to branches would be helpful for third party APIs to > organize and tag branches without putting them in the branch name. For > example, project management software will use an issue key to search the > branch name but it would be better to search branch metadata. I know > branches have descriptions but I believe these are part of the local > configuration?
FWIW, a recent discussion on the main Git list [1] brought to my attention that there exist support for setting textual branch descriptions: a config setting branch.<name>.description, which can be manipulated with the `git branch --edit-description` command. See the gitconfig manual page for more details. 1. https://public-inbox.org/git/xmqqilnr1hff.fsf@gitster.g/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/git-users/20220721111337.nj4g3m77uld3j7a3%40carbon.
