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

Aashish Chaudhary aashish.chaudhary at kitware.com
Thu Oct 14 15:10:52 EDT 2010


+1 for conventions.

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Marcus D. Hanwell <
marcus.hanwell at kitware.com> wrote:

> 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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| Kitware Inc.
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