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Git CLI tool for intelligently creating branch names

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35 points Terretta | 6 comments | 31 Oct 25 13:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source | bottom
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r1cka ◴[31 Oct 25 14:56 UTC] No.45772653[source]▶
I think people worry too much about branch names. Feature branches are usually ephemeral. Prefix your branch with your personal identifier so I know who is primary on it and worry more about the commit message which will live on indefinitely.
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morkalork ◴[31 Oct 25 14:57 UTC] No.45772677[source]▶
Yes, please just name the branch after the ticket/issue number so we can all get the context for it and call it a day
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wara23arish ◴[31 Oct 25 15:15 UTC] No.45772963[source]▶
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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6LLvveMx2koXfwn ◴[31 Oct 25 15:27 UTC] No.45773128[source]▶
we do:

  [feature/bug]/ISSUE-NUMBER-summary-of-issue
e.g.:

  bug/psi-456-broken-args-parsing
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1. darkwater ◴[31 Oct 25 15:30 UTC] No.45773179[source]▶
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.
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2. celticninja ◴[31 Oct 25 16:22 UTC] No.45773812[source]▶
But the PR and git blame can tell you this so I would never look at the Branch name to find out this information
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3. dewey ◴[31 Oct 25 17:39 UTC] No.45774594[source]▶
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.
4. darkwater ◴[31 Oct 25 18:23 UTC] No.45775078[source]▶
For me is useful when I run 'git fetch' from the command line. I don't use any graphical git client
5. ytreister ◴[01 Nov 25 19:03 UTC] No.45784353[source]▶
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

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6. ytreister ◴[03 Nov 25 07:44 UTC] No.45796744[source]▶
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.