How to display branch description in git?

Question

git

I want to add a description to the branches in the git. I found this command
git branch --edit-description [branchname]
It seems to add a description, because it appeared in the config. But with the command
git branch --list ,
only a list of branches is displayed without a description. How can I make this command also display a description?

Answer 1

No way.
Open an editor and edit the text to explain what the branch is for, to be used by various other commands (eg format-patch, request-pull, and merge (if enabled)). Multi-line explanations may be used.