[Kde-scm-interest] Gitolite server-side clones and personal branches

Simon Hausmann hausmann at kde.org
Wed Jun 16 13:49:59 CEST 2010


On Saturday, June 12, 2010 ext Jeff Mitchell, wrote:
[...]
> The other way to do it is simply to allow people to create branches with
> a specific namespace -- e.g. personal/myname/mybranch -- but that are a
> normal ref that everyone gets. This makes the checkout size of the repo
> go up (although generally slightly) and means everyone sees all of them,
> but it also means cgit/redmine see them too.

In my experience that quickly becomes very messy, unless you have enough 
discipline to regularly clean up old branches.

We've done that a while for QtWebKit development and I would not recommend to 
go down that route.

Simon
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