Sascha Peilicke ([email protected]) wrote:
> On Thursday 21 November 2013 08:41:51 Victor Lowther wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 6:33 AM, Adam Spiers <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Sascha Peilicke ([email protected]) wrote:
> > > > I would also wonder why we append
> > > > /master to every branch :-) Why not just "release/roxy" ? Or better
> > > > "stable/roxy" which seems like a more common pattern in the git world.
> > > 
> > > Because the original pre-flattened branching model included product
> > > info ("openstack-os-build" etc.) in the branch name, and then it got
> > > partially moved into the releases/ tree in the main repo, leaving
> > > behind the branch naming scheme.  I believe Victor is working on
> > 
> > > tidying this up, but I don't yet know how that would work:
>
> > Having a known suffix at the end of a branch name makes it easier to use
> > git show-ref in certain use cases, which is why all the release branches
> > end in master.
> 
> But ye poor contributokid has to typee more when he branches a lot. Do you 
> have some examples?

I'd also appreciate a better understanding of this.  This sounds like
a case where users are being dictated to by the tools, but it should
be the other way around.

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