[Exercise Discussion] T8L4 Renaming branches with remote

[woojiahao]

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Lesson

T8L4: https://nus-cs2103-ay2526s1.github.io/website/book/gitAndGithub/trail/remoteBranches/index.html

Exercise learning outcomes

Students should be able to know how to rename branches.

Exercise setup

Load 2 branches for the student, one local (try-quick-fix) and one pushed to a remote (improve-loadding)

We will fork and clone the repository for the sake of simplicity

Instructions for students

See https://git-mastery.github.io/lessons/remoteBranchRename/exercise-remote-branch-rename.html

Exercise grading

1. improve-loadding branch renamed to improve-loading
2. improve-loading cannot exist as another branch (i.e. student created improve-loading directly)
3. improve-loading must exist as a branch on the remote repository
4. improve-loadding cannot exist as another branch on the remote repository

Requires remote repository?

Yes, will file the ticket.

Additional remarks

@damithc Just checking but in the original document, you said that students will be given a merged and unmerged branch, is this accurate or was it supposed to be a remote branch? I've designed the current exercise around a local and remote branch, but open to changing

[woojiahao]

Opened request for remote repository: #28

[damithc]

@damithc Just checking but in the original document, you said that students will be given a merged and unmerged branch, is this accurate or was it supposed to be a remote branch? I've designed the current exercise around a local and remote branch, but open to changing

@woojiahao The merging status doesn't matter. So, the current one is fine.

Suggested branch names (to avoid confusing with other keywords)

• local: give a branch try-quick-fix and ask to rename fix-scrolling-bug (i.e., a branch that started as a temp experiment but now getting ready to share)
• remote: give a branch improve-loadding and ask to rename improve-loading (i.e., fix typo)

[woojiahao]

Got it, so we can stick with the current format. I'll update the name of the name of the branches and setup in the discussion comment

[woojiahao]

Assigned to @woojiahao

[woojiahao]

Requested repository: https://github.com/git-mastery/tidy-branches

[damithc]

@woojiahao FYI, I used the gm- prefix for the helper repos I created for exercises, so that it is easier to filter them out when we are looking (i.e., eyeballing) for another more important repo in our org.

[woojiahao]

gm- prefix for the helper repos I created for exercises,

Right, the app actually automatically prefixes all Git-Mastery forks with <username>-gitmastery- to avoid this. We can align on one?