Re: Personal branches in incubator.git

[Sergiu Ivanov]

Hello,

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 03:12:06PM +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 01:49:13PM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote:
> > I was told that personal branches (like scolobb/fix-something) in the
> > unionfs.git repository are okay for publishing intermediate
> > (unrevised) changes.  Are they still acceptable for incubator.git,
> > where there may possibly be several contributors?
> 
> Sure!

Great :-)
 
> > If so, should there
> > be a special branch naming convention for all contributors to follow?
> 
> I'd say we can simply see how this evolves over time.  Now, that doesn't
> help you too much when just beginning to work on the branches in there,
> so to make a useful suggestion: what about, e.g., using (a)
> nsmux/scolobb-WHATEVER, or (b) scolobb/nsmux-WHATEVER, or (c)
> nsmux-scolobb-WHATEVER (as suggested on
> <http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/rules/source_repositories.html>).  I
> don't really care, so just pick one.

I think I'll stick with scolobb/nsmux-WHATEVER for now; the choice is
due to some vague sympathy, with no special logic behind.

> If you need some help which one to pick ;-):
> 
>     $ echo "main(){printf(\"%c\n\",getpid()%3+'a');}" | gcc -w -x c - && 
> ./a.out

LOL! :-D

Regards,
scolobb