Re: [git patches] libata updates, GPG signed (but see admin notes)

[David Woodhouse]

On Tue, 2011-11-01 at 14:21 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I hate how anonymous our branches are. Sure, we can use good names for
> them, but it was a mistake to think we should describe the repository
> (for gitweb), rather than the branch.
> 
> Ok, "hate" is a strong word. I don't "hate" it. I don't even think
> it's a major design issue. But I do think that it would have been
> nicer if we had had some branch description model. 

I actually quite like it. I take it as a hint: if the contents of a
branch are *so* wildly different from the main repository that they need
a different description, perhaps I should be using a separate repository
instead of just a branch.

-- 
dwmw2

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