From kde-core-devel  Tue Apr 26 17:50:57 2011
From: John Layt <johnlayt () googlemail ! com>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 17:50:57 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Git Feature Branch Naming Policy
Message-Id: <201104261850.58096.johnlayt () googlemail ! com>
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On Tuesday 26 Apr 2011 16:18:22 Harald Sitter wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 April 2011 15:52:18 John Layt wrote:
> > I'd prefer to see the gsoc branches under a common prefix in the main
> > 
> > project repo rather than as personal branches or repos:
> >   origin/gsoc2011/<subproject>/<branchname>
> > 
> > e.g. in kdelibs.git have "origin/gsoc2011/kdecore/astronomical-calendars"
> 
> What if a student wishes to have multiple branches (which are of interest
> to the mentor)?
> 
>    origin/gsoc2011/<subproject>/<gsocprojectname>/<gsocprojectbranch>
> 
> comes to mind, which looks rather insanely long :S

Nah, they would just have it at the same level, I think we can cope with that.

Note in most projects/repos that <subproject> won't be needed, e.g. Marble 
won't need it, it's only those monolithic repos with multiple apps or 
libraries that you might need it to keep order.

John.