Re: I'm Building a GitHub for Writers
by guynamedloren on Thursday August 29, 2013 @01:52PM
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> For general writing collaboration I would seriously consider not allowing arbitrary branches. Most people just get confused managing multiple independent outstanding branches that potentially branched from different points in the history.
Yep, absolutely true.
> One restriction could be that each user gets a single branch (their suggested change). As changes get merged into HEAD each user's branch must be rebased (with a click) before they can add more changes to it.
Yep, absolutely true.
> One restriction could be that each user gets a single branch (their suggested change). As changes get merged into HEAD each user's branch must be rebased (with a click) before they can add more changes to it.
Heavily considering this approach.