We are a trusting team and don't do pull requests with our closed source repos either.
To avert chaos it's much better to have an orderly branching model in place e.g. feature branches! My fellow partners made us go all "git flow" last year and the result has been a really tidy and satisfying workflow:
We have been using Git Flow in our team too. One advantage I se is that using git-flow specific hooks we add some metadata to every time a feature/ branch is finished. This metadata goes into an automatic Release notes file which is automatically added to the repo (as an amend of the flow's last commit).
Similarly, hotfixes have metadata which goes to their own hotfix.csv file.
A deploy script processes the hotfixes and feature files to create a Release notes.
We've got a very smooth release documentation process which is difficult for Dev's to hate and skip.
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We are a trusting team and don't do pull requests with our closed source repos either.
To avert chaos it's much better to have an orderly branching model in place e.g. feature branches! My fellow partners made us go all "git flow" last year and the result has been a really tidy and satisfying workflow:
http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/
Atlassian's SourceTree also helps us with maintaining "the flow":
http://www.sourcetreeapp.com
https://www.atlassian.com/git/workflows
Git extensions and screencast on how to setup on OSX:
https://github.com/nvie/gitflow
http://build-podcast.com/git-flow/
We have been using Git Flow in our team too. One advantage I se is that using git-flow specific hooks we add some metadata to every time a feature/ branch is finished. This metadata goes into an automatic Release notes file which is automatically added to the repo (as an amend of the flow's last commit).
Similarly, hotfixes have metadata which goes to their own hotfix.csv file.
A deploy script processes the hotfixes and feature files to create a Release notes.
We've got a very smooth release documentation process which is difficult for Dev's to hate and skip.