>  I find it useful to use fairly short names for branches.  However,
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>  sometimes I would like to have a full sentence to actually describe
>  what the branch is for, without having the peruse the actual commits.

Me too.

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>  This information could of course be kept on a web page, but it would
>  be nice to have it in the repo.

Like, putting your bug number in the branch name.

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>  Is there any such branch annotation command?
>  Ideally I'd like to see a sentence displayed next to the branch name
>  when I use "git-branch".
>  Perhaps, git-branch --info or something.

The problem is that a branch is just a floating name for a line of
development. Its not really a "thing" in the repository like a tag or
a commit. You'd need to make some sort of special tag that describes
the branch or somesuch.
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