On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 02:27:47PM +0200, Aurelien Bompard wrote:
> > - either "dev", "devel", or
"develop"
>
> Had a quick look, and there are over 50 already at "develop" as the
> main branch. -- most of the others are 'main' or 'master' -- so it
> looks like 'develop' is a bit of a standard already.
>
Alright. I think I've setup most of the projects that have a "dev" branch.
I knew I'd have to pay for my lazy fingers one day.
I think many used 'develop' because it was part of 'git flow' which many
of the infra developers used to be proponents of.
https://datasift.github.io/gitflow/IntroducingGitFlow.html
In that model people did work in feature/bug branches, and then merged
to 'develop' to stablize/test/integrate, then it merged to master for a
release.
Anyhow, just a bit of history why we seem to have so many develop
branches. :)
kevin