> On Oct 21, 2016, at 12:23 PM, Daniel Dunbar <daniel_dun...@apple.com> wrote:
>> On Oct 21, 2016, at 12:14 PM, Dave Abrahams via swift-dev
>> <swift-dev@swift.org <mailto:swift-dev@swift.org>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> on Fri Oct 21 2016, John McCall <rjmccall-AT-apple.com
>> <http://rjmccall-at-apple.com/>> wrote:
>>
>>>> On Oct 21, 2016, at 10:39 AM, Dave Abrahams via swift-dev
>>>> <swift-dev@swift.org <mailto:swift-dev@swift.org>> wrote:
>>>> on Fri Oct 21 2016, Daniel Dunbar <swift-dev-AT-swift.org
>>>> <http://swift-dev-at-swift.org/>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> While on this topic...
>>>>>
>>>
>>>>> GitHub's support for doing cross-repo pull requests is
>>>>> excellent. Anyone can easily fork the main repo, and push to their
>>>>> side repo (for example, with: `git push ddunbar
>>>>> HEAD:name-of-my-new-branch`) and the GitHub web UI on the main repo
>>>>> will automatically show you a handy button for creating the PR.
>>>>>
>>>>> With this level of support, IMHO branches usually should be pushed to
>>>>> individual's own repos, not the main repo.
>>>>
>>>> IMO it depends whether you think Swift development should be
>>>> discoverable. When the Swift project formally engages in developing
>>>> something like the new integer and floating point models, there's an
>>>> advantage to having it in the main repository.
>>>
>>> I don't understand this argument. Looking at a list of branches is not a
>>> useful
>>> way of discovering development history — you don't know which branches are
>>> still active, which branches were merged, or which branches were completely
>>> abandoned.
>>
>> True. Maybe discoverability isn't the word I was looking for. When
>> three people want to collaborate on development of a feature branch,
>> where should it live?
>
> I agree... longer lived high profile branches make sense to me personally,
> just not short lived "push for purpose of PRing immediately" ones.
Yeah, I agree. Any sort of *collaborative* branch is 100% okay to live in the
main repository. If you weren't expecting a branch to be a collaboration and
it starts turning into one, it's easy to just move it over from your personal
fork at that point.
John.
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