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Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 10:14:44 -0900
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] branches
From: Britton Kerin <britton DOT kerin AT gmail DOT com>
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On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 1:44 AM, Svenn Are Bjerkem
<svenn DOT bjerkem AT googlemail DOT com> wrote:
> On 20 November 2012 11:24, Levente <leventelist AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
>> I have some slightly off topic question.
>>
>>
>> How the branches are treated? If we make some commit to the stable-1.8 will
>> it ever be merged to the master? When do we fork a new branch? If we make a
>> change to the master, how they going to go to the stable-x.y branch?
>
> I am not a dev, but I am using git at work, and I got into the same
> thought for my own one-man git use.
> Since git is so powerful and can be used in so many ways, I just copy
> this link again.
> http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/
>
> It is a model with some supporting git overlay, but it is also a nice
> discussion on what problems distributed programmers may face.

That is a good system, especially worth mentioning is --no-ff.  I like the
approach that goes a step farther and has every developer named Bob make
a branch called Bob off whatever he's working on.  Then you don't have to
rebase but can actually have the main repository reflect what's actually
happened, which is the whole point of version control.  Then you don't get
this situation:

1.  Bob clones
2.  Bob edit-compiles-debugs
3.  Bob rebases, which breaks something that he doesn't catch
4.  Bob pushes
5.  Its a hard mess to sort out since you don't have any working version with
    Bob's changes in the canonical repository

Britton