Naming branches in git

Since we using trunk based development as our workflow, we try to merge code daily and not have any long running "feature branches".

Daily branches

Daily branches have the developer's initials, the date, and a small title. For e.g.: Asha Kumari making a branch on 12th April to work on "updated search algorithm", should name the branch something like ak/12apr/update-search-algo. This gently nudges the developer to merge the branch in a day or two, since this is just a convention and not enforced in any manner.

Release branches

Release branches have an identifier that it is a release branch, and the date on which the branch is scheduled to go live. For example, the release branch cut on 10th December 2018 will be named release/2018-12-17 to indicate that it is the release which is scheduled to go live on 17th December 2018.