GitHub git conventions

Branches

• Always branch off of the main branch
• A branch name should always start with the issue number. For example, a new feature request has been created in Issue 123, then the branch name creating/working on that feature should be: 123_new_feature.
• Underscores or hyphen are permitted: 124-fix-broken-links.

Commit Messages

Pull Requests

• Branches are deleted once merged into the devel branch