Just out of curiosity, why remove this? On the projects I work on, they use username/topic-name for private user branches (bug fixes, feature impls) and feature-name for shared feature branches. This makes it easy to identify a dev's private branch from shared feature branches. The / character also results in a nice, tree-view display in Visual Studio's Branches tool window. :-)

We don't plan to use the main repo for private dev branches. Devs are working from their forks (mostly). Current guidelines could still be applied, but since fork name already provides a moniker, it's not that important.

Ah yeah, that makes sense. Thanks.