What’s the benefit of using a central branch? It adds cruft in the main repo, and you are able to collaborate very easily via private branches. (Especially if you download the github application)
People don't clean up public branches after merging fairly often. On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 4:39 PM Ishan Chattopadhyaya < [email protected]> wrote: > > Use of central branches is ok for very collaborative work, but 95% of > the time it is better with a private branch to avoid extra mailing list > traffic etc. > > How do we know that? > > On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 11:47 PM Jan Høydahl <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Most committers already use a private fork branch for PRs, and now the >> list of central branches *i*s getting much tidier than it used to. >> Use of central branches is ok for very collaborative work, but 95% of the >> time it is better with a private branch to avoid extra mailing list traffic >> etc. >> >> There are now only 4 central branches that seem to be actively updated >> last 2 weeks, and hopefully will be deleted when PRs are merged: >> >> >> I'll encourage every committer to review the full list of branches at >> >> https://github.com/apache/solr/branches/all >> >> ...and if you see a branch created by yourself that is not in use, please >> click the trashcan icon to delete it from central repo. >> >> Jan >> >
