From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Branches in Emacs Git repo Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2016 18:47:24 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87oaabg0nc.fsf@mbork.pl> <87pouq409p.fsf@russet.org.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1458427843 29878 80.91.229.3 (19 Mar 2016 22:50:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2016 22:50:43 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 19 23:50:34 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ahPhZ-0006vT-QU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2016 23:50:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50781 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ahPhW-0002vo-5V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2016 18:50:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50371) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ahPhC-0002vP-NS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2016 18:50:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ahPh7-000567-P0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2016 18:50:10 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:34507) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ahPh7-00055v-Ir for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2016 18:50:05 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ahPh5-0006eR-Qu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2016 23:50:03 +0100 Original-Received: from 107-179-144-20.cpe.teksavvy.com ([107.179.144.20]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 19 Mar 2016 23:50:03 +0100 Original-Received: from monnier by 107-179-144-20.cpe.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 19 Mar 2016 23:50:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 10 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 107-179-144-20.cpe.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:e2jLE/usbDRkTt6GkWhd1GcOaHA= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:201907 Archived-At: > I don't think that there are many rules about branches that are not main > branches, as it were. There are some, tho. Mainly: if you want to play around with a branch which you don't intend to merge directly, then use "scratch/" because other branches have to follow our coding convention for every commit (i.e. proper commit message using the ChangeLog format). Stefan