Re: Branches in Emacs Git repo

[Phillip Lord]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> I don't think that there are many rules about branches that are not main
>> branches, as it were.
>
> There are some, tho.  Mainly: if you want to play around with a branch
> which you don't intend to merge directly, then use "scratch/<something>"
> because other branches have to follow our coding convention for every
> commit (i.e. proper commit message using the ChangeLog format).


Okay, well, I didn't know about this, although given that it's not
possible to squash a branch, I think that this covers pretty much any
branch that I would ever make.

Phil