Re: Guidance needed in creating a branch

[Carl Sorensen]

On Fri, Apr 19, 2024 at 7:03 PM Colin Campbell <cpkc.music@shaw.ca> wrote:

> Thanks for this, Jason! I've managed to get an MR created, and it just
> passed the CI checks; now to remember what worked for the next time . . .
>
> Cheers,
>
> Colin
>
> On 2024-04-19 12:53, Jason Yip wrote:
> > On 2024-04-19 12:51, Colin Campbell - cpkc.music(a)shaw.ca wrote:
> >> I see that developers have branches on gitlab, showing as  >
> >> origin/dev//username/; I gather that this is The Way It's Done®, but I
> >> can't find direction in CG as to how to create such a branch. Is it
> >> as simple as, e.g. git push -u origin dev/cpkc/ottava?
> > During my time in last summer's GSoC, Carl (as my mentor) discussed
> > with everyone whether dev/ branches should still be used, or personal
> > repository forks were performed. It seems that most developers were on
> > board with the latter option, but I'm not sure if that's still the
> > preferred way or not since the end of my GSoC project as I haven't
> > been as active. See
> > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2023-05/msg00054.html
> >
> >> Any guidance  (and patience as I fumble through the process!) will be
> >> gratefully received, and I'll probably propose updates to the CG to
> >> capture your help.
> >
> > It should be as simple as creating your local personal branch from the
> > main branch (`git checkout -b cpkc/ottava` while in main branch), then
> > pushing to that desired remote repository (your git command is correct).
> >
> > If creating a personal GitLab fork of the repository is still the
> > preferred way, then I suggest naming your personal GitLab fork remote
> > name as the origin one, and the official repository as "upstream." So
> > you can pull/fetch from "upstream", then push to origin. I even make
> > sure I accidentally don't push to "upstream" with `git remote set-url
> > --push upstream NULL`.
> >
>

For my most recent merge request, I followed the guidance that I should use
a dev/ branch.

So when I started work on the issue, I just created a dev branch locally:

git branch dev/cds/fix_my_issue

And then I pushed my branch to origin.

HTH,

Carl