On 16 March 2015 at 18:53, Glyph Lefkowitz <gl...@twistedmatrix.com> wrote: > > On Mar 16, 2015, at 11:20 AM, Adi Roiban <a...@roiban.ro> wrote: > > Hi, > > I would like to ask why the twisted branch name convention ask for > trailing ticket ID. > > Why not leading ID? > > some-text-1234 vs 1234-some-text > > ----- > > The default git auto completion script only does search at the start > of the string. > > When I work on a ticket I know the ticket number but I always forget > the name of the branch... so I have to search it inside the Trac > ticket. > > It is not a big deal and I know that there are greater annoyances in > Twisted dev process but I am curios if there is someone else who don't > like this convention and if there is any chance of changing it. > > > When we started this it seemed like the descriptive name would be easier to > remember than the opaque ticket number. I agree that was the wrong call, > oddly enough, I do remember the ticket numbers more. That said, we can > switch as soon as all the currently outstanding branches are landed and > deleted: https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/browser/branches ;-)
Which are the "all currently outstanding branches" ? I see a lot of branched older than 5 years... with 210 branches older than 2 years :( Why do we need to wait for them? -- Adi Roiban _______________________________________________ Twisted-Python mailing list Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python
