[mapserver-dev] Default branch in github

[Lime, Steve D (MNIT)]

I'd be ok changing to master - being a git neophyte, is that hard to do? The default being the stable branch isn't connect to mapserver/docs is it? Need to change the default to branch-7-0 for docs BTW. 

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From: Even Rouault [mailto:even.rouault at spatialys.com] 
Sent: Friday, August 21, 2015 3:54 PM
To: Lime, Steve D (MNIT) <Steve.Lime at state.mn.us>
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Subject: Re: [mapserver-dev] Default branch in github

Le vendredi 21 août 2015 22:46:41, Lime, Steve D (MNIT) a écrit :
> I'd think users would want to work against the production branch (7.0) but
> people that fork would go off master. So either could be correct depending
> on perspective. What do other projects (e.g. GDAL) do? --Steve

GDAL has just a git mirror, but its default branch is trunk (=master). Most 
other git projects I can think of point on master by default.

Basing something against a stable branch require more care than master since 
there must be a stronger assessment of the gain / risk ratio in doing so. For 
example I've cherry picked into master commits from a few pull requests from 
someone who had based them (accidentaly?) on branch-7-0. Those commits were 
mostly cleaning memory leaks in error code paths, so I think there are more 
master material than for a stable branch (especially since it is quite likely 
that those error code paths are not tested by msautotest)

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> [mailto:mapserver-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Even Rouault
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> 
> Hi,
> 
> The default branch in github is branch-7-0. Shouldn't that be master
> instead ? Otherwise people that fork and hack are likely to use branch-7-0
> instead of master when submitting pull requests.
> 
> Even

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