Re: [eigen] Named branches

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Just a note: named branches stay in the history forever. A alternative are bookmarks which are in most cases more convenient and can be removed when no more needed.

Cheers,
Martin

On 05/07/2013 02:43 PM, Hauke Heibel wrote:
It's ok. After thinking about it again, I agree that it would be a bit
too confusing. It's easy enough to create a fork.

Regards,
Hauke


On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Gael Guennebaud
<gael.guennebaud@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:gael.guennebaud@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

    I'm also temped to favor forks to keep the main repository as simple
    as possible.

    gael

    On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Christoph Hertzberg
    <chtz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    <mailto:chtz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
     > On 07.05.2013 11 <tel:07.05.2013%2011>:07, Hauke Heibel wrote:
     >>
     >> does anybody over here have objections against using named
    branches for
     >> providing patches and new features (bitbucket supports named
    branches +
     >> pull requests).
     >
     >
     > Will this still give unauthorized users the possibility to create
    branches?
     > (ok, obviously forks would not be forbidden then, I guess)
     > Furthermore, I prefer very experimental features (which are
    abandoned quite
     > often) not to pollute the commit history of the main repository.
     >
     > That said, I don't have strong objections, but I prefer the way
    it is at the
     > moment.
     >
     > Christoph
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