Aaron Patterson ✅Aug 2, 2024

Is there a way to associate a note or something with a git branch? All of my git branch names are absolute garbage because I don't want to type much when switching. But now I have a zillion branches and don't know what they're for. I'd be willing to at least write a message when making a new branch (as a note to myself)

I put nice commit messages on branches, but I can't remember the larger context 😭

Show threadSteven HarmanAug 2, 2024

@tenderlove git does branch name completion, no? Or do I have something in my zshell config to enable that? It’s been this way for me so long I honestly cannot remember.

Anyhow, tab-to-trigger brand name completion doesn’t work for you? Or is insufficient?

Show threadAaron Patterson ✅Aug 2, 2024
@stevenharman completion isn't a problem. I don't want to have long branch names bc I have the branch name in my prompt. I want something more descriptive than a few words
Show threadSteven HarmanAug 2, 2024
@tenderlove I have a multi-line (2 lines) prompt with the branch, git status, Ruby version, etc… all on line 1, and my actual prompt on 2. So longer branch names don’t bother me. But I hear ya.
Show threadStephen Crosby
@stevenharman @tenderlove git notes can be attached to arbitrary refs. An underutilized feature IMO https://git-scm.com/docs/git-notes
Git - git-notes Documentation

Aug 2, 2024 at 5:38amWeb
Show threadSteven HarmanAug 3, 2024
@stevecrozz @tenderlove TIL! Thanks, buddy.