[ros-dev] [VOTE] Miscelanea branches

[Alex Ionescu]

Alex Ionescu wrote:

> Some people actually like to have versionning for their own private 
> work and have a nice way to revert/update.
> The whole point of an svn branch is so you don't lose your work, so 
> that others can see, and so that you have a versionning system to take 
> care of your own work. It seems barbaric and fascist to disallow 
> someone from maitaning his own branch, even if his changes are 
> useless, trial-and-error, or simply shit.
>
> Best regards,
> Alex Ionescu

This is my proposition:

I admit that I fucked up (oooh big word) with the branch for many 
reasons, but I would still like to be able to do the following:

1) Have alex_devel_branch
2) Create a bug fix or new feature, tag it as such
3) Test this bug fix or feature until it works
4) Merge to Head
5) Create new bug fix or new feature, tag it as such, STILL in the same 
branch
6) Lather, Rinse, Repeat.

I want to be able to re-use that branch for adding new things, but for 
them to be UNIQUE/ATOMIC changes (as Casper calls them "feature 
branches"). So it would be a perpetually reusable feature branch, but 
only containing a single feature at one time, and always getting merged 
when that feature is complete.

Can we have that middle ground?

Best regards,
Alex Ionescu