Git development branches

Aleix Pol aleixpol at kde.org
Fri Jan 7 15:58:41 UTC 2011


On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Benjamin Port <port.benjamin at gmail.com>wrote:

> Ok, so I go to create clones under my account, (if some people want to
> look for our code, just see clones for bport)
>
> Benjamin Port
>
> 2011/1/7 Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org>:
> > On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 06.01.11 21:19:15, Aleix Pol wrote:
> >> > On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Benjamin Port
> >> > <port.benjamin at gmail.com>wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > Hello,
> >> > > When we worked with gitorious we have our development branches under
> a
> >> > > team repository.
> >> > > Currently we can't do the same thing with git.kde.org
> >> > > So there are two solutions (at least):
> >> > > * Create branch under the main repository
> >> > > * Create personnal clone
> >> > >
> >> > > For me it's more easy to create branch under the main repository:
> >> > > *Easy to see quickly all development branch with a git branch -a
> >> > > *Easy to switch from one branch to another branch
> >> > > *Only one repository to clone
> >> > > For this solution I suggest to:
> >> > > *Create branch with a name convention like: somestuff-username (e.g.
> >> > > qtdocumentation-bport), with this we can know on what a group work
> and
> >> > > also know a "branch maintainer" to contact him.
> >> > > *Remove branch when we have merged it in order to have a clean
> >> > > repository all the time and not a large amount of branch.
> >> > >
> >> > > Regards,
> >> > > Benjamin Port
> >> > >
> >> > > --
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> >> > >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > The only benefit is having the branch available to different
> developers
> >> > because, according to #kde-sysadmin yesterday afternoon it's not
> >> > possible to
> >> > have team clones in git.kde.org. Other reasoning here is not
> important
> >> > (as
> >> > apaku said it's possible to list all branches just by adding the
> >> > remote).
> >>
> >> Unlike what sysadmins say, the personal clones do have write access for
> >> other developers. I've tested that on wednesday already with PovAddict
> >> (sorry, dunno your realname :)) and you can also see that with ssh g.k.o
> >> expand kdevelop
> >>
> >> Andreas
> >>
> >> --
> >> You are number 6!  Who is number one?
> >>
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> >
> > In that case, I'd say it makes sense that in situations like ISI's the
> > development is being held in personal clones since it's a very specific
> > subset of people working on it.
> > Aleix
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We should find a place in the wiki so that we can put the relevant
information on the branches together.

Aleix
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