Re: remote branches, and branch names in general

"John Dlugosz" [off-list ref] writes:

I see the remote branches with names of the form remotes/pub/name where
pub is the nickname of the place I pull from.  To specify such branches,
must I always spell it out with the leading "remotes/", or can that be
shorted or implied somehow?  

You usually can omit "remotes/" prefix, and just use
"<remote>/<branch>" (or even "<remote>" for "<remote>/HEAD"). You need
it only if there is need for disambiguation.

Meanwhile, I see that branch names can be hierarchical, as I found out
when I accidently created a branch called "pub/xxx".  So I'm wondering
about the usefulness of using that for organizing topic branches based
on assigned tasks organization and the person owning that branch.

Junio uses branches like 'fc/parseopt-config' (initials + feature)
in git development...

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Jakub Narebski
Poland
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