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[24.150.100.81]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id b23sm388393qkb.31.2017.05.11.08.56.07 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 11 May 2017 08:56:08 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Article on the branch strategy in gitworkflows(7) From: Raman Gupta To: git@vger.kernel.org References: <92db69d3-ca38-45da-47dc-0fb612a16e8d@gmail.com> Message-ID: Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 11:56:07 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <92db69d3-ca38-45da-47dc-0fb612a16e8d@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-CA Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org FYI - the article mentioned below has been published @ https://medium.com/@ramangupta/how-the-creators-of-git-do-branches-e6fcc57270fb Thank you to the two or three people that I know of that took the time to read the draft. Regards, Raman On 22/03/17 12:41 PM, Raman Gupta wrote: > Several years ago, I contributed [1] to the gitworkflows(7) > documentation, because I thought the process by which git.git does > branching was really interesting. > > Since then, I have found it odd that gitworkflows has mostly remained > under the radar. Other, in my opinion, lesser flows, have become very > popular, like GitFlow [2]. I have written an article explaining the > "why" of gitworkflow in contrast to GitFlow and others: > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cGNujRNVzeLV2SXkVlKwai6qJmlVT3LwlOsVYNr0FZo/edit?usp=sharing > > This article is not published yet -- its still a DRAFT and only > visible via the above URL. > > I'd love to have input on the draft from the experts in this > community. Feel free to suggest changes and add comments in the > article via Google Docs. > > Also, some explanatory illustrations to accompany the article would be > excellent, if anyone feels like contributing. Visuals are not my > strong suit. I'd love to include something similar to the graphic [3] > that was a big part of making GitFlow so popular. The article can be > partially rewritten to match illustrations, if any are contributed. > > [1] > https://github.com/git/git/commit/382e54312220ac02586a3cbb06b0e4eb7789f043 > > [2] http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/ > > [3] http://nvie.com/img/git-model@2x.png > > Regards, > Raman Gupta >