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
>>
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