[vtk-developers] ANN: All VTK commits through the topic stage

[Marcus D. Hanwell]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 2:51 PM, David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Marcus D. Hanwell
> <marcus.hanwell at kitware.com>
> >>>
> >>> Is there are branch naming convention?  I tend to use
> >>> lowercase-words-with-dashes.
> >
> > We have asked that they be meaningful, but we are not enforcing any
> > particular naming convention. Perhaps we should adopt a default style,
> and
> > lower case with dashes seems reasonable.
>
> I'd be in favor of a strict naming convention, it just makes it easier
> to communicate.  I'm particularly in favor of the lowercase-dash
> convention.
>
> If someone says "go checkout my-stuff-here" they immediately know you
> are talking about a branch, and not about a directory or a file etc.
>
> I like the convention too, and would be happy to adopt/advocate that
convention. If we hear no major objections I will get this integrated into
the relevant wiki pages.

Marcus
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