Re: make default repo branch "gh-pages" or keep as "master"?

I understand there are some ways to automate this, e.g., to sync gh-pages
on merging a pull request.  Jeff: Maybe you could look at [1] and advise?

[1] https://github.com/martinthomson/i-d-template

On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 5:18 PM, Hodges, Jeff <jeff.hodges@paypal.com> wrote:

> On 3/5/16, 5:14 PM, "Mike Jones" <Michael.Jones@microsoft.com> wrote:
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> Can we please just use “master”?  Git is hard enough without having to
> remember that this repository’s Git procedures are different from every
> other Git repository that I use!
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> using master as the "default branch" is fine by me, it just means that
> whenever we wish to "publish" the repo to http://w3c.github.io/webauthn/*
> we have to do an explicit push to the gh-pages branch.
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> *From:* Hodges, Jeff [mailto:jeff.hodges@paypal.com
> <jeff.hodges@paypal.com>]
> *Sent:* Saturday, March 5, 2016 4:37 PM
> *To:* W3C WebAuthn WG <public-webauthn@w3.org>
> *Subject:* make default repo branch "gh-pages" or keep as "master"?
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> http://w3c.github.io/specs.html appears to suggest making one's repo's
> default branch be "gh-pages"
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> doing so would mean that all work-in-progress* (merged) in (to) the
> gh-pages branch will be publicly available automagically at
> http://w3c.github.io/webauthn/*
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> e.g:  http://w3c.github.io/webauthn/webauthn-web-api/Overview.html
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> If we keep "master" as the default branch, then we would have an extra
> step of pushing changes from master to gh-pages branch in order to publish
> "editors' drafts"
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> However, in looking at github.com/w3c/webappsec-credential-management it
> appears that that is what they webappsec folk are doing over there, so
> maybe that's the way we should go.
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> Again, http://w3c.github.io/specs.html advocates deleting the master
> branch and using just the gh-pages branch, which'd eliminate that extra
> push-to-gh-pages step noted above.
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> But I wonder whether our working draft(s) can be publicly available (which
> is the case with everything in the gh-pages branch) prior to reaching first
> public working draft (FPWD) status -- Wendy/Harry?
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> thanks, hth,
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> =JeffH
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