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Comment nommer les branches avec Git


Note : ce n'est pas vraiment ce qu'on fait ici.

Traduction de la page : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/273695/git-branch-naming-best-practices

Voici quelques conventions de nommage de branches que j'utilise et leurs raisons.

Conventions de dénomination des branches

  1. Utilisez le regroupement par mots au début de vos noms de branche.
  2. Définir et utiliser des mots courts et fort de sens afin de différencier les branches d'une manière qui soit utile à votre flux de travail.
  3. Utilisez des barres obliques (/) pour séparer les éléments de vos noms de branche.
  4. Ne pas utiliser de numéros nues comme premier élément.
  5. Évitez les longs noms descriptifs pour les branches à long terme.

Exemple de gestion de nom de branches

Utiliser des mots "de regroupement" pour chaque élément vos noms de branche.
group1/foo
group2/foo
group1/bar
group2/bar
group3/bar
group1/baz


Les groupes peuvent être nommés comme vous le souhaitez en fonction de votre flux de travail.

Jetons court bien définis

Choisissez jetons courts afin qu'ils n'ajoutent pas trop de bruit Ă  chacun de vos noms de branche. Exemples :
  • wip : Travaux en cours; choses que je sais ne sera pas bientĂ´t fini
  • feat : FonctionnalitĂ© en cours d'ajout ou de complĂ©tion
  • bug : RĂ©solution de bug
  • junk : Branche jetable pour rĂ©aliser des Ă©xpĂ©rimentations

Each of these tokens can be used to tell you to which part of your workflow each branch belongs.

It sounds like you have multiple branches for different cycles of a change. I do not know what your cycles are, but let's assume they are 'new', 'testing' and 'verified'. You can name your branches with abbreviated versions of these tags, always spelled the same way, to both group them and to remind you which stage you're in.

new/frabnotz
new/foo
new/bar
test/foo
test/frabnotz
ver/foo

You can quickly tell which branches have reached each different stage, and you can group them together easily using Git's pattern matching options.

$ git branch --list "test/*"
test/foo
test/frabnotz

$ git branch --list "*/foo"
new/foo
test/foo
ver/foo

$ gitk --branches="*/foo"

Use slashes to separate parts

You may use most any delimiter you like in branch names, but I find slashes to be the most flexible. You might prefer to use dashes or dots. But slashes let you do some branch renaming when pushing or fetching to/from a remote.

$ git push origin 'refs/heads/feature/*:refs/heads/phord/feat/*'
$ git push origin 'refs/heads/bug/*:refs/heads/review/bugfix/*'

For me, slashes also work better for tab expansion (command completion) in my shell. The way I have it configured I can search for branches with different sub-parts by typing the first characters of the part and pressing the TAB key. Zsh then gives me a list of branches which match the part of the token I have typed. This works for preceding tokens as well as embedded ones.

$ git checkout new<TAB>
Menu: new/frabnotz new/foo new/bar


$ git checkout foo<TAB>
Menu: new/foo test/foo ver/foo

(Zshell is very configurable about command completion and I could also configure it to handle dashes, underscores or dots the same way. But I choose not to.)

It also lets you search for branches in many git commands, like this:

git branch --list "feature/*"
git log --graph --oneline --decorate --branches="feature/*"
gitk --branches="feature/*"

Caveat: As Slipp points out in the comments, slashes can cause problems. Because branches are implemented as paths, you cannot have a branch named "foo" and another branch named "foo/bar". This can be confusing for new users.

Do not use bare numbers

Do not use use bare numbers (or hex numbers) as part of your branch naming scheme. Inside tab-expansion of a reference name, git may decide that a number is part of a sha-1 instead of a branch name. For example, my issue tracker names bugs with decimal numbers. I name my related branches CRnnnnn rather than just nnnnn to avoid confusion.

$ git checkout CR15032<TAB>
Menu: fix/CR15032 test/CR15032

If I tried to expand just 15032, git would be unsure whether I wanted to search SHA-1's or branch names, and my choices would be somewhat limited.

Avoid long descriptive names

Long branch names can be very helpful when you are looking at a list of branches. But it can get in the way when looking at decorated one-line logs as the branch names can eat up most of the single line and abbreviate the visible part of the log.

On the other hand long branch names can be more helpful in "merge commits" if you do not habitually rewrite them by hand. The default merge commit message is Merge branch 'branch-name'. You may find it more helpful to have merge messages show up as Merge branch 'fix/CR15032/crash-when-unformatted-disk-inserted' instead of just Merge branch 'fix/CR15032'.
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