Re: [Monotone-devel] pulling restricted branches

[Julio M. Merino Vidal]

On Oct 9, 2007, at 2:57 PM, Joerg Bullmann wrote:

> Richard wrote:
>
> > Usually, a project has an information board somewhere with the
> > appropriate information.  That's certainly true for monotone, and
> > most certainly true for any SCM, or people wouldn't even know  
> > where to
> > turn to share the files!
>
> How cool would it be, though, if montone could have comments or  
> descriptions attached to branch labels and a command to list the  
> existing branch labels (and their comments/descriptions). That  
> would be kind of a table of content of a database. One could look  
> at this and understand better which branches exist and what's in  
> them. Is not this information best kept in the database? Isn't the  
> database the most natural place for this kind of thing? Why split  
> it away and keep it externally in some information board or so?
>
> From the user's point of view, that would be very good because one  
> wouldn't have to run away and scout about in some information board.

FWIW git stores (non-versioned) branch descriptions in the repository  
and these are extremely nice to have when setting up a gitweb server.

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Julio M. Merino Vidal <address@hidden>