Re: Moving to git

[Jason Merrill <jason at redhat dot com>]

On 08/21/2015 04:26 AM, Richard Biener wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 10:09 PM, Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > ISTM that within that namespace, folks ought to have the freedom to use
> > > whatever works for them.  If folks want to create a transient branch,
> > > push-rebase-push on that branch, then later remove it, I tend to think,
> > > why not let them.
> >
> > Makes sense.
>
> Well, I think that all public branches should follow the trunk model - if only
> to make merging a dev branch to trunk possible without introducing messy
> history.

All shared branches, yes, but I think personal branches can be more 
volatile.

> Can we limit the namespace one can create branches in?  Like force all
> branches created by $user to be in namespace $user?
> So require some super-powers to create a toplevel branch?

We can.

> And make [user branches] not automatically pulled?

We can't control what 'git clone' pulls by default.  People can clone 
with --single-branch to get just the trunk and then adjust what else 
gets pulled, but I think it will make most sense for most people to pull 
everything.

Jason