If someone wants to fold these into [[mw:Git/Workflow]] or another appropriate place in the Git docs, please feel free.
-Chad On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Diederik van Liere <[email protected]> wrote: > To me this looks like a light-weight naming convention, awesome! > D > > On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Chad <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Diederik van Liere <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> Hi y'all, >>> >>> With the pending git migration upon us,is this also the right time to >>> think about naming conventions for git branches or is there nu such a >>> need? >>> I can imagine that a branch aimed at fixing a bug could be named >>> B12345, or something like that. Or are 'descriptive' names good >>> enough? One reason to have naming conventions is that it would make it >>> easier in the future to run scripts to collect stats on particular >>> branches. That would be much harder in a complete freetext >>> environment. >>> >> >> Having a bug number is useful and gives an immediate place to look >> for information. git-review uses the local branch name as the "Topic" >> so it's helpful for grouping things relating to a single bug in Gerrit. >> >> For features or other random things that don't have a specific bug, I >> prefer being nice and descriptive. Something like "config-mgmt-overhaul" >> or "new-feature-foobar" are clear. Something like "ui-fix" isn't. >> >> I think we should use the same naming conventions like we do for >> message keys--all lowercase and using hyphens rather than spaces >> or underscores. >> >> Other than the branch/tag names for core, I don't think we necessarily >> need strong guidelines here--common sense should suffice for now. >> >> When in doubt: be verbose! >> >> -Chad >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
