Re: Guidance needed in creating a branch

[Jason Yip]

On 2024-04-19 12:51, Colin Campbell - cpkc.music(a)shaw.ca wrote:
> I see that developers have branches on gitlab, showing as  > 
> origin/dev//username/; I gather that this is The Way It's Done®, but I
> can't find direction in CG as to how to create such a branch. Is it as 
> simple as, e.g. git push -u origin dev/cpkc/ottava?
During my time in last summer's GSoC, Carl (as my mentor) discussed with 
everyone whether dev/ branches should still be used, or personal 
repository forks were performed. It seems that most developers were on 
board with the latter option, but I'm not sure if that's still the 
preferred way or not since the end of my GSoC project as I haven't been 
as active. See 
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2023-05/msg00054.html

> Any guidance  (and patience as I fumble through the process!) will be 
> gratefully received, and I'll probably propose updates to the CG to 
> capture your help.

It should be as simple as creating your local personal branch from the 
main branch (`git checkout -b cpkc/ottava` while in main branch), then 
pushing to that desired remote repository (your git command is correct).

If creating a personal GitLab fork of the repository is still the 
preferred way, then I suggest naming your personal GitLab fork remote 
name as the origin one, and the official repository as "upstream." So 
you can pull/fetch from "upstream", then push to origin. I even make 
sure I accidentally don't push to "upstream" with `git remote set-url 
--push upstream NULL`.

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- Jason Yip