How we use Git, part 2

[David Lawrence]

Sounds fine to me. I would even go a little further and name it bug-218917-gerv or
feature-218917-gerv. For people who want to contribute that do not have checkin
rights, there is always github as well and they can use similar naming there.

dkl

On 11/25/2014 06:08 AM, Gervase Markham wrote:
> Bugzilla developers with checkin rights may want to create topic
> branches in git for development of significant patches. For example, if
> I had thought about it, I would probably have done the new docs work
> this way, rather than forking on github.
> 
> Based on something I read elsewhere, can I propose we have a convention
> that such a branch is named with the bug number and the person's nick,
> so we know who to contact about a branch?
> 
> So my big patch, that glob is in the middle of reviewing, to split login
> names from email addresses would have branch name "218917-gerv".
> 
> Does that make sense?
> 
> Gerv
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