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

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

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

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

Then what's the reasoning behind "dev"?