WIP branches

[Simon Peyton Jones]

| One unfortunate side-effect of keeping WIP work in forks is that GitLab
| will not show the user that the branch has a corresponding MR when
| viewing its commit list. For instance if you look at [1] (a branch in
| the primary GHC repository associated with !298) GitLab will note the
| fact that the branch has an MR open with the "View open merge request"
| button on the top right of the page. However if we look at [2] (in
| osa1's fork, associated with !299) we see no such indication.

This is quite important (to me). On several occasions already I have asked myself "have I opened a MR for this wip/ branch, and if so which MR?".   There really should be a way to answer that question.

Simon

| -----Original Message-----
| From: ghc-devs <ghc-devs-bounces at haskell.org> On Behalf Of Ben Gamari
| Sent: 06 February 2019 22:34
| To: Matthew Pickering <matthewtpickering at gmail.com>; Sylvain Henry
| <sylvain at haskus.fr>
| Cc: ghc-devs <ghc-devs at haskell.org>
| Subject: Re: WIP branches
| 
| Matthew Pickering <matthewtpickering at gmail.com> writes:
| 
| > Making `ghc-wip` sounds like a reasonable idea to me.
| >
| > I have found that people pushing to the `wip/` branches makes things
| > much smoother so far as it means that I can rebase/finish/amend other
| > people's patches and just push to the same branch without having to
| > ask people to do annoying rebases etc.
| >
| Right, this is a significant advantage of keeping WIP branches in the ghc
| repo. I agree that we should clear out some of the older, non-archival
| wip/ branches.
| 
| One unfortunate side-effect of keeping WIP work in forks is that GitLab
| will not show the user that the branch has a corresponding MR when
| viewing its commit list. For instance if you look at [1] (a branch in
| the primary GHC repository associated with !298) GitLab will note the
| fact that the branch has an MR open with the "View open merge request"
| button on the top right of the page. However if we look at [2] (in
| osa1's fork, associated with !299) we see no such indication.
| 
| Cheers,
| 
| - Ben
| 
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