Question regarding dist-git aesthetics with branches

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Thu Jul 22 19:00:34 UTC 2010


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On 07/22/2010 02:19 AM, Hans Ulrich Niedermann wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 10:19 +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> writes:
>>
>>> master -> origin/master
>>> f13 -> origin/f13/master
>>> f12 -> origin/f12/master
>>
>> Please don't.  The remote and local branches should be named the same so
>> that "git checkout -t origin/whatever" does the right thing.
> 
> Actually a good point, Andreas.
> 
> +1 for remote and local branch names being the same. This will also help
> with the consistency simplifying build scripts that Jesse mentioned.
>  
> 
> 

The consistency only matters for the remote branch name.  I really don't
care what people call the local branch, because I won't be shelling into
their system and messing with their clones.

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Jesse Keating
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