[BTW no need to send to both crowbar@dell.com and crow...@lists.us.dell.com]
Sascha Peilicke (sasc...@mailbox.org) wrote: > On the other hand, seasoned developers with an eye for beauty are consistently > annoyed by the continued over-use of Github. I'd call it abuse or misuse of git rather than over-use of github, but essentially I agree. > People use the "crowbar" Github > organization for their private feature-fiddling while they should do that in > their own fork. Whether to keep stable-release branches or use tags instead is > a matter of taste, I believe. Not quite, IMHO - unmaintained stable releases should be tagged, and maintained stable releases should be branched. At risk of stating the obvious, this is because git tags are intended for stationary snapshots, whereas branches are intended for tracking moving targets. > But the following examples are really a miss-use: > > remotes/crowbar/release/hadoop-2.1/master > remotes/crowbar/release/hadoop-2.2/master > remotes/crowbar/release/hadoop-2.3/master > remotes/crowbar/release/hadoop-2.4/master > > It should be one "hadoop" branches with tags 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4. That depends on whether there is an intention to maintain 2.1 independently of 2.2 etc. > remotes/crowbar/release/mesa-1.6.1/master > remotes/crowbar/release/mesa-1.6/master > remotes/crowbar/release/mesa-1.7/master > > Same here. I'm not so sure - IIRC at least two of these are considered independent releases. > remotes/crowbar/release/mesa-1.6.1/openstack-build/master > > WTF? Away with thee! Yeah there is a big WTF factor with that. It stems from the abuse of git branches to track not only releases but also products, or builds, or something else depending on your preferred terminology. > I guess that's where the most cleanup potential lies. I'd say removing ancient feature / topic branches is the lowest hanging fruit. _______________________________________________ Crowbar mailing list Crowbar@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/crowbar For more information: http://crowbar.github.com/
