[Kde-scm-interest] Re: GSoc branch best practices

[Raphael Kubo da Costa]

Marcel Wiesweg <marcel.wiesweg at gmx.de> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I would be interested on best practices with git branches for our gsoc 
> students, assuming the students do not work on master.
>
> With SVN, we always had one dedicated branch for all students, regularly 
> synced with trunk. With git, I see some more possibilities:
>
> 1) One branch per student
> 	1a) regularly rebased on master
> 	1b) changes regularly merged from master, merged to master at finish
> 2) One branch for all students, merged at finish
>
> Any KDE projects with experience from last year? Plans for this year?
>
> (Btw, is it now possible to rebase branches in KDE git like 1a?)
>
> Marcel

The same question was asked a month ago [1], but unfortunately nobody
gave any ideas.

Wouldn't it be better to have each student work on his personal project
clone, so that rebasing is easier?

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.scm-interest/2032