On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Philip Oakley <philipoakley@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Is one option to store the branch description (if any) on line two of the > <branch name> file in .git\refs\heads. Or even on line one. We already basically do that for the magic FETCH_HEAD branch, and use it to populate the merge commit. Extending that kind of thing to all branches might be a nice idea. Of course, then the question becomes "what about packed refs"? Do you just leave the unpacked ref in place for those? Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html