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

[David Gobbi]

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.

  David