convention for branch names

[thorade]

This is just a minor idea that I found useful during my daily work: It seems to be a widely accepted convention to use branch names with forward slash as path separator like this:

• category/oneTwoKeywords_issue-ID_initials
• release/12x
• bugfix/fixABC_issues-ID_initials

Some more ideas here:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/repos/git/git-branching-guidance?view=azure-devops#name-your-feature-branches-by-convention
Useful categories could be e.g. release, feature, maintenance, documentation, regresssion, etc, but some limited set of categories.

MSL uses maint/1.2.3 for release branches:
https://github.com/modelica/ModelicaStandardLibrary/branches/all

Many git GUIs display that as folders, see GitExtensions as an example in this screenshot:

[mwetter]

Thanks. I wasn't aware of this. We can look into it for future development if that helps with some git clients.