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* Proposal to change branch maintenance
@ 2013-02-11 21:56 Tom Tromey
  2013-02-13 11:32 ` Gary Benson
                   ` (3 more replies)
  0 siblings, 4 replies; 23+ messages in thread
From: Tom Tromey @ 2013-02-11 21:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Project Archer

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.


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.


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.

I think newer git even has some automated thing for documenting
branches, but unfortunately I think we aren't all on a new-enough git
yet.  We could adopt that when we're ready.

Tom

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2013-02-11 21:56 Proposal to change branch maintenance Tom Tromey
2013-02-13 11:32 ` Gary Benson
2013-02-13 12:16 ` Jan Kratochvil
2013-02-13 12:33   ` Pedro Alves
2013-02-13 12:53   ` Gary Benson
2013-02-18 16:10   ` Tom Tromey
2013-02-18 16:20     ` Jan Kratochvil
2013-02-18 16:29       ` Tom Tromey
2013-02-18 17:03         ` Jan Kratochvil
2013-02-18 17:40           ` Tom Tromey
2013-02-18 22:01           ` Tom Tromey
2013-02-22 15:54             ` Tom Tromey
2013-02-26 17:33     ` Tom Tromey
2013-02-26 20:13       ` Tom Tromey
2013-02-26 20:31         ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2013-02-27 20:50           ` Tom Tromey
2013-02-27 20:50         ` Tom Tromey
2013-02-27 21:15           ` Tom Tromey
2013-02-18 11:46 ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2013-02-18 16:11   ` Tom Tromey
2013-02-18 16:16     ` Jan Kratochvil
2013-02-22 15:06       ` Tom Tromey
2013-02-22 21:27 ` Tom Tromey

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