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Master vs main (again) (infosec.pub)
submitted 5 days ago by Sibshops@lemmy.myserv.one to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 2 points 4 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 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 4 days ago

Then what's the reasoning behind "dev"?