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What are best practices for adding meaningful descriptions to branches?

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Suppose your Git repository contains numerous branches. The names for branches are supposed to indicate their role, topic and context, but that can become rather unhandy in a large project: main , develop , rewrite_logging , rewrite_logging_again , that_new_feature_we_had_a_coffee_chat_about , urgent111 , ... What are best practices to manage meaningful descriptions of different branches? That…

Suppose your Git repository contains numerous branches. The names for branches are supposed to indicate their role, topic and context, but that can become rather unhandy in a large project: main, develop, rewrite_logging, rewrite_logging_again, that_new_feature_we_had_a_coffee_chat_about, urgent111, ...

What are best practices to manage meaningful descriptions of different branches?

That description system should enable people to have an idea of what a branch is about, who worked on that and why; it should avoid people guessing what was the point of a branch.

What are known best practices for this?

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