RFC: develop feature branches in main repo

Bart Cerneels bart.cerneels at kde.org
Tue Nov 9 21:21:21 CET 2010


On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 17:04, Ian Monroe <ian at monroe.nu> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Leo Franchi <lfranchi at kde.org> wrote:
>> On Tuesday, November 09, 2010 09:50:29 AM Ian Monroe wrote:
>>> I know some people are still using Gitorious repos and such for the
>>> ongoing work. However recently everyone has been granted the right to
>>> create branches on our git.kde.org/amarok.git repo.
>>>
>>> I think it would raise the visibility of feature branches if everyone
>>> just pushed them to the main repo. This would make things a bit
>>> 'messy', but I don't really think its a big problem. We could have a
>>> spring cleaning and move all the old branches into amarok-history if
>>> it becomes an issue.
>>>
>>> I do suggest that branches be named YYYYMMDD-description.
>>
>> +1 from me. Though I suggest for naming we could also do
>>
>> author-description
>>
>> instead.
>
> Yes, I think that naming scheme makes more sense.
>

I don't agree since these kinds of branches are generally worked on by
multiple people. So having one "author" in the name is weird. I think
the date in the name makes more sense for spring cleaning purposes,
although it's not needed at all thanks to git's metadata.

Bart


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