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Master vs main (again) (lemmy.myserv.one)
submitted 3 days ago by Sibshops@lemmy.myserv.one to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] LedgeDrop@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

trunk?

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Master's trunk ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 3 points 2 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 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago

Then what's the reasoning behind "dev"?