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[–] Sibshops@lemmy.myserv.one 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It just bothers me that "master" branch is a misnomer. It's a hold over from CVS/SVN where there was actually a central authoritative branch. I'm not necessary saying the other reasons don't have merit, as well.

[–] LedgeDrop@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Master's trunk ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I always rename it to "dev." Hard to have any problems or confusion with that

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

dev is confusing it implies it's not the stable branch, no? Or was the master branch never stable for you?

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The only time I merge unstable code is behind a feature flag

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 3 days ago

Then what's the reasoning behind "dev"?