Rev 5020: (vila) Recommend using meaningful branch names for contributions in file:///home/pqm/archives/thelove/bzr/%2Btrunk/

[Canonical.com Patch Queue Manager]

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revno: 5020 [merge]
revision-id: pqm at pqm.ubuntu.com-20100210091016-2asq6wznqcb8e97s
parent: pqm at pqm.ubuntu.com-20100210030624-wnjdp7yy7zb8vu7u
parent: v.ladeuil+lp at free.fr-20100210081834-xkx23kvskpu169gq
committer: Canonical.com Patch Queue Manager <pqm at pqm.ubuntu.com>
branch nick: +trunk
timestamp: Wed 2010-02-10 09:10:16 +0000
message:
  (vila) Recommend using meaningful branch names for contributions
modified:
  doc/developers/HACKING.txt     HACKING-20050805200004-2a5dc975d870f78c
=== modified file 'doc/developers/HACKING.txt'
--- a/doc/developers/HACKING.txt	2010-02-04 17:16:17 +0000
+++ b/doc/developers/HACKING.txt	2010-02-10 08:00:58 +0000
@@ -120,12 +120,20 @@
 `your_lp_username`.  You can push your branch to Launchpad directly from
 Bazaar::
 
-  $ bzr push lp:~your_lp_username/bzr/giveback
+  $ bzr push lp:~your_lp_username/bzr/meaningful_name_here
 
 After you have pushed your branch, you will need to propose it for merging to
-the Bazaar trunk.  Go to <https://launchpad.net/your_lp_username/bzr/giveback>
-and choose "Propose for merging into another branch".  Select "~bzr/bzr/trunk"
-to hand your changes off to the Bazaar developers for review and merging.
+the Bazaar trunk.  Go to
+<https://launchpad.net/your_lp_username/bzr/meaningful_name_here> and choose
+"Propose for merging into another branch".  Select "~bzr/bzr/trunk" to hand
+your changes off to the Bazaar developers for review and merging.
+
+Using a meaningful name for your branch will help you and the reviewer(s)
+better track the submission. Use a very succint description of your submission
+and prefix it with bug number if needed (lp:~mbp/bzr/484558-merge-directory
+for example). Alternatively, you can suffix with the bug number
+(lp:~jameinel/bzr/export-file-511987).
+
 
 Why make a local copy of bzr.dev?
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