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Re: Proposal to change branch maintenance
- From: Gary Benson <gbenson at redhat dot com>
- To: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Project Archer <archer at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 11:32:42 +0000
- Subject: Re: Proposal to change branch maintenance
- References: <874nhipla5.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>
Tom Tromey wrote:
> I've been thinking a bit about how we maintain branches in archer.git
> and I'd like to propose a few changes. Let me know what you think.
>
> First, going back to something Jan proposed years ago, I think we
> ought to delete truly dead branches. That is, if a branch has been
> merged upstream and is no longer useful, let's just zap it.
I prefer zapping dead branches to keeping them around, but I have no
strong preference on this.
> Second, let's change our naming approach for new branches. At the
> start of the project I was largely ignorant of git, so I made some
> obvious-in-retrospect mistakes here.
>
> I think we should adopt the more git-like "/" separator, and drop
> the "archer" prefix, as it is redundant given the repository.
>
> So, new branches would be like "tromey/project" rather than the
> current "archer-tromey-project".
>
> I don't propose renaming existing branches.
I like this idea a lot.
> Third, what about adopting a convention for a "README.archer"
> file in the top-level of each branch? This file would explain
> the branch's purpose and would let us bypass the tedious step
> of updating the wiki whenever pushing a new branch.
Again, I like this idea a lot. It would be great if we could do
this in such a way as to make it easy to write a script that would
produce a list of current branches and short descriptions. Maybe
specify a simple syntax for the file, like "the first line should
be a short description of the branch."
Cheers,
Gary
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