Work Branches

Volker Krause vkrause at kde.org
Sat Oct 5 10:13:00 BST 2019


On Saturday, 5 October 2019 04:11:11 CEST Ben Cooksley wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Recently we had a discussion (which I think may have ended up spread
> over a couple of mailing lists in the end) concerning branches and the
> ability to force push to them.
> 
> Current policy forbids force pushing to branches except in very
> limited circumstances (essentially where it is the only option to fix
> a branch)
> 
> The discussion ended with two ways forward, but no 100% clear
> consensus on which way we want to go forward. The two proposed ways
> were:
> 1) Only protect 'master' and declared 'stable' branches.
> 2) Protect all branches, aside from a given prefix (proposed to be work/)
> 
> I'd like to clean this up and sort out the policy we want to have
> surrounding this so we can move forward.
> 
> From my perspective i'd rather we go with Option 2, as this will be
> the approach that will be easier to both implement and maintain in the
> long term and be the least likely to cause collaboration problems (as
> the branch naming conventions will be universal across all our
> repositories).
> 
> Thoughts?

+1, sounds good to me :)

Thanks,
Volker
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