New repo: Add description field

Description

The New Repository dialog is almost just like on the web, except that it lacks a description input field. I’ve included screenshots at the bottom of this post to juxtapose the two.

I understand the input of the description field to go to two places upon creation of a repo on the web:

• The description field below the repo title
• The line below the title in README.md if “Initialize this repository with a README” is selected before selecting “Create repository”.

It is also my understanding that the description field is specific to GitHub.com repositories, as it does not go into the .git/description file for gitweb, as discussed in isaacs/github#485. However, it would be convenient to avoid having to utilize the website to manually input the repo description after publishing a new repo.The desktop client could handle this by doing the following:

1. Allow the user to input a description string below the title (like on the web)
2. Save it somewhere until the user publishes the repo (someone on the team will know the best location for this—maybe there’s already a place—but if not, perhaps at .git/info/gh-description?)
3. As a step of publishing the repo, set the description field of the repo to the user-input string

If this is implemented, then the repo creation for desktop will be in complete parity with the web. 🙌

Version

GitHub Desktop version: 0.8.2

OS version: macOS 10.12.6

Screenshots

Desktop:

Web:

[joshaber]

And indeed, that’s exactly what @davidcelis did in https://github.com/desktop/desktop/pull/2723 😆

[joshaber]

Nope, no worries!