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I hate issue numbers for branch names. ISSUE-9482 doesn’t really provide much.

Ticket link should always be included in PR description.

But branch names should be descriptive like terraform_dev_create_instance

etc

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I've worked in a couple of places with <issue ID>-<something descriptive> conventions, moderately useful

Yes, `issue-10-add-feature-X` style is best.

I have a little script that does this automatically - lists out Jira tickets assigned to me, then when I select one, creates a branch with the ticket number and the title, subbing hyphens for spaces and truncating if needed. It’s handy for when I want to list branches, I can filter on keywords I remember from the ticket name.

That's been my preference at most places I've worked. issue id so the branch gets linked to jira or whatever and a short description to find the branch later if needed.

we do:

  [feature/bug]/ISSUE-NUMBER-summary-of-issue

e.g.:

  bug/psi-456-broken-args-parsing

More or less the same here, but we (I?) prefix it with the username as well, so when pulling branches you know who created it.

But the PR and git blame can tell you this so I would never look at the Branch name to find out this information

For me is useful when I run 'git fetch' from the command line. I don't use any graphical git client

A nice benefit of prefixing by your-name/issue-1234-some-description is that many git clients will show it in a folder structure that way and it's easy to differentiate yours from other branches.

I added a new TODO issue so that username can be configured in the branch name. gibr currently does not have support for username.

https://github.com/ytreister/gibr/issues/42

I implemented this in version 0.6.0 which was just released. https://github.com/ytreister/gibr/releases/tag/0.6.0 The issue assignee can be used in the branch name.

gibr makes it super easy to do exactly this!

gibr makes it easy to do this and in a consistent manner

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