Re: [Rails-devel] Git branches

[brett l. <bre...@gm...>]

On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 4:13 AM, Stefan Frey <ste...@we...> wrote:

> There are no more and more branches on the git repo, I repeat my
> proposal from some time ago:
>
> A) Let us have "official" branches which start with rails_1 or rails_2,
> and have all others indicate the developer you owns or started the
> branch. Thus e.g. I rename mine to "sfy_route" or
> "sfy_rails_2_unfinished".
>
>
+1 to standardized naming of official branches.


> B) And it should be possible to delete old private branches, especially
> those that have been merged already. This can be checked using with the
> command "git branch --merged". Branches are only tags to specific
> commits, so they have nothing special.
>
>
Anybody with commit rights can remove branches by doing this:  git push
:some_branch

The command syntax for push is "git push [src]:[dst]", so the command for
deleting branches is basically, "push null source to the remote branch."

A point of clarification. Private branches are branches that you don't push
anywhere. If you push a branch to the SF.net repository, it's no longer
private.

Names for private branches are the concern of each developer because nobody
else is going to see those branches.

For public branches that aren't a part of the primary release process (i.e.
branches with in-development code you're pushing to share your ideas with
other developers.), those should have a clear naming convention to reduce
confusion for the release manager.




> This would make life easier for all of us.
>
> What are the opinions of the others?
>

This is all fine by me.

---Brett.