Hi there, we are a small tram of social researchers working on writing a collective report together. The report has several chapters. Our plan is to use git to store changes and easily traceback to different versions as well as allowing everyone to experiment with new ideas.

I am trying to decide a branching strategy, and so far I guess something like feature branching could do. We could have a branch for each chapter…? And maybe, when a chapter is kind ready, we could merge into main…?

We will have members working potentially on different parts of the report in different moments.

Advice is needed. Thank you!

  • semperpeppe@feddit.itOP
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    10 hours ago

    Thank you for your reply! What are the “objects” possibly determining a branch? Features? Chapters? Writers? Releases?

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      10 hours ago

      The first commit on main would be a rough structure of the document.

      Then branches for each feature (in your case perhaps “abstract”, “chapter 2: intro” “chapter 2: methodology” “chapter 2: conclusion”), and branches for bugs (in your case perhaps: “proofreading and errata chapter 2”, “correct legend figure 4.2”).