Adding Meta Information to Git Branches

#1

Post by drgenehack » Wed, May 25, 2016, 4:47 PM UTC

Adding Meta Information to Git Branches
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Re: Adding Meta Information to Git Branches

#2

Post by throwanem » Wed, May 25, 2016, 9:11 PM UTC

Maybe I'm missing something, but isn't the .git/config file local to a given working copy? The helper scripts are neat and all, but I don't see anything here that would actually propagate this metadata anywhere.

Re: Adding Meta Information to Git Branches

#3

Post by kevinmgranger » Wed, May 25, 2016, 9:42 PM UTC

What about git-notes? https://git-scm.com/docs/git-notes

Re: Adding Meta Information to Git Branches

#4

Post by alblue » Wed, May 25, 2016, 9:43 PM UTC

This person has obviously no intention of sharing the data with others, and hasn't heard of Git Notes support either.

http://alblue.bandlem.com/2011/11/git-tip-of-week-git-notes....

Re: Adding Meta Information to Git Branches

#5

Post by OJFord » Wed, May 25, 2016, 9:57 PM UTC

throwanem wrote: post #2

Maybe I'm missing something, but isn't the .git/config file local to a given working copy? The helper scripts are neat and all, but I don't see anything here that would actually propagate this metadata anywhere.

Yes, it's local-only. This would seem to have a very limited use case.

Even then, you could always just maintain different local/remote branch names and not need the scripts (git push : - and of course, you can set that as default).