In message 891383.24029.qm@web313.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com you wrote:
I think you should use branches on your local repository, but not on the custodian repo. There, I want to see no branches.
Hmmm. I thought branches would provide an excellent way of putting experimental code 'out there' (i.e. code that's not intended for short-term upstream merging). Is this bad?
I don't know. We will have to learn all together how this works out best.
So far my impression is that git is stil very new to most of the users (and even some of the custodians) so I would like to keep things as simple as possible.
Please feel free to try out how others accept such branches. I can deal with them - just let me know exactly whre to pull from.
But please keep in mind that we just added one level of complexity to the end users by switchign from one central "official" repository to so many separate custodian trees. Adding branches to these trees adds another level of complexity, and my feeling is that this will confuse most users. But I may be wrong.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk