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Branching strategy for a text based project (feddit.it)
submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/git
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Hi there, we are a small tram of social researchers working on writing a collective report together. The report has several chapters. Our plan is to use git to store changes and easily traceback to different versions as well as allowing everyone to experiment with new ideas.

I am trying to decide a branching strategy, and so far I guess something like feature branching could do. We could have a branch for each chapter..? And maybe, when a chapter is kind ready, we could merge into main..?

We will have members working potentially on different parts of the report in different moments.

Advice is needed. Thank you!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I think this will heavily be influenced by how you distribute your work. Does everyone works on everything (branch by chapters) or is your report clearly divided to every author (then maybe branch by author to make it easier)? In addition every author can decide to branch down further if they feel the need to do so.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

To be honest, in the beginning, I started with a branch for my own version of some chapters. We thought it was ok and merged into main. Maybe if we are going to use branches at all, having a branch for each author could make sense. We need to discuss this