Git Feature Branch Naming Policy

Alexander Neundorf neundorf at kde.org
Tue Apr 26 19:26:33 BST 2011


On Tuesday 26 April 2011, John Layt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Did anything come out from discussions on feature branch naming in git? 
> With GSoC starting soon we'll be getting a lot of new feature branches and
> it would be nice if they were consistantly named to make them easy to find
> and manage.
>
> See
> http://community.kde.org/20110213_GitWorkflowAgenda#How_To_Handle_Topic_Bra
>nches for the original meeting notes.
>
> I'd prefer to see the gsoc branches under a common prefix in the main
> project repo rather than as personal branches or repos:
>
>   origin/gsoc2011/<subproject>/<branchname>
>
> e.g. in kdelibs.git have "origin/gsoc2011/kdecore/astronomical-calendars"

Sounds good IMO.

Alex




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