Hacker News Reader

I fall somewhere in between. I don't mind if the names are random and fun. But I do like: - avoiding the use of slashes (because with enough folks working on the same repo, you can get some crazy conflicts) - prefixing with some sort of "handle" (e.g. your initials) to help avoid branch name conflicts

View on HN

I made it a policy to only use a-z, 0-9, and _ in any branch, file, folder, or any other 'names' in the cli. Basically anything I'd type in the cli as an identifier/name. I find it prevents weird issues with characters when scripting and such, since the rest of the shiftable symbols on the 1-0 row (*, &, etc.) tend to cause issues when used too much in names because they're also used as operators and stuff. I think I started doing that with Windows filenames, since it has so many limits, and it crossed over into my Linux cli workflow.

Yea, the slashes in branch names grates on me because '/' is a character that means too many things and the name winds up in URLs on Github.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com