I'm thinking I might want the ability to describe branches and tags separate from the check-in comments.
Maybe a wiki page with the same name as the branch or tag would serve the purpose, then in the wiki page there could be links to tickets or whatever else is needed to describe what is going on. But that's not quite enough. Or rather, it's sometimes too much. I'd like to summarize the purpose of the branch or tag. The name kind of does that, but it has to be very terse for ease of typing. In my case I'd like to copy the associated ClearQuest activity title. Right now I'm using it as the check-in comment for when the branch ultimately gets integrated to trunk. That works, but in order to get the title I have to click on the tag in the tag list. Would be good to see them all in one page (or a filtered subset thereof) so I can search for keywords. Well actually there's already a fulltext search, but I don't think there's a way to limit it to only check-ins to trunk or to do other filters, e.g. only for check-ins having tags matching a glob pattern. Plus the check-in comment trick doesn't work to describe branches that haven't been integrated to trunk yet. The check-in comments on branches just describe the actual changes being performed, and I don't feel good about also shoehorning the activity titles in there. Maybe each branch could start with an empty check-in just to hold the title. Doesn't the "branch new" command do that? Oh wait, it doesn't allow the check-in comment to be specified, and following each one up with an amend seems wasteful. Automatically linking branch and tag names to like-named wiki pages doesn't seem like too major a change. But creating a space to provide a short description (akin to a check-in comment) of branches and tags could require a new type of control artifact. Or it could require that the wiki page be specially formatted, e.g. the first paragraph is taken to be the description, which is probably a better idea anyway so it can all be edited in the same interface. Any thoughts? -- Andy Goth | <andrew.m.goth/at/gmail/dot/com>
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