On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Stephan Beal <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 5:12 PM, Ron W <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> The "sym-" one not having a value. Strange to me that 2 tags would be
>> used (I would have thought only the "branch" tag), but looks like the
>> "sym-" tag could be used to hold a branch description.
>>
>
> One downside: this precludes modifying the description without yet another
> tag applied to amend it. Similar to the comment tag, but a comment tag is
> cached in the 'event' table (ecomment field), so it's not expensive to
> calculate later on. It sounds like this change would need a similar place
> to store the most recent description.
>

In that case, a possible alternative would be a simple way to display
(including amendments) the comment from the branch's first commit (as that
seems to be a common convention for describing a branch).
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