Could we please open a new git branch?

[Ian Monroe]

On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Myriam Schweingruber <myriam at kde.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> since we have several bugs causing a probably longer delay of 2.3.2,
> could we please open a second branch, called "testing" for example?
>
> The advantages would be the following:
>
> * we could commit the SoC projects code and start testing
> * several people have fixes waiting in their branches, causing either
> new strings or bringing new features
> * we would start using git to its real potential. Currently almost
> everybody uses several branches and has to share his branches
> elsewhere, a testing branch would really be useful to everybody.
>
> Of course this is not intended to become the main branch, but will
> remain the testing branch, and enhance collaboration. Merging is of
> course always possible once a feature is tested and doesn't break the
> build.
>
> I can't see any inconveniences.

You couldn't merge in one feature to mainline easily. Either have a
feature branch or a release branch, but a branch with several
unrelated features in it doesn't make much sense.

Ian