The description is used for request-pull (as stated in the man-page). This has already been discussed here.
Question
I set just a simple description for my local branch and now I'd like to see it. How one can see description for a branch set by issuing git branch --edit-description
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Solution
OTHER TIPS
It is possible to show the branch descriptions by interrogating the repos config settings, which is where the description is stored.
I have two aliases defined, one shows all branches that have descriptions, and the second shows the description of the current HEAD branch
brshow = config --get-regexp 'branch.*.description'
brshow1 = !git config --get "branch.$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD).description"
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