What about joe? Because the engineer who bootstrapped the project mistakenly put his name as the mainline branch and we realized it far too late during the lifecycle and the team decided to keep the branch name because it's hilarious.
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Joe who?
Joe mama
I’m using shenanigans now, fits the best methinks.
HEAD
It's master3. Don't question it!
hunter2
Why would you name a branch just 7 asterisks?
Boring answer: older repos are master, newer ones are main. I've worked at companies that did other things such as having the prod branch be a branch called prod.
Develop should be Chaotic Evil.
This is what is used where I work. I have never and will never understand why.
At some point in the past that was the only way to make the business run immediately when the boss said it needed to run immediately, and it's been that way ever since
Chaotic Evil should be the current sha hash.
Feel like lawful evil fits better for master
Yall have multiple branches?
"Untitled"
Untitled-project2_final_fixed-3.zip
(empty string)
It's goshujin-sama
branch (i always commit directly to the main branch so i only have one, so why bother naming it. also YOU CANT STOP ME FROM DOING IT BWAHAHAHAHAHA)
qa.
All development happens in feature branches. Someone other than the original developer needs to build and test the feature on our development servers. If successful it gets merged into qa, where it gets built and tested against it qa servers. Production build are tags on qa.
Moab is “mouth over anus & balls”.
Even better
Latest
Develop
Khorne
develop
Main is QA. Production is release branches.
Hey Linus did you merge my branch into mommy? I really want to get it out.
smirnoffcarkeysandabeer
Evolution names like "mammal".
Branch on every commit. Never delete. If something needs to be rolled back, merge it back into HEAD. Conflict resolution only through melee combat.
Conflict resolution only through melee combat.
Wrestle with Jeff, Prepare for death.
Never merge. Only cherry pick.
You have met every team I have ever worked with apparently
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prod
I like prod because it makes less assumptions on stability. It is what is being used, good luck with the rest.
Stick with the prod, its always a good idea to prod with the prod, stick with the prod.
“live” didn’t make it onto the list, I see.
It's dead, Jim.
🤡 for master
👽 for test
💩 for dev
belay your panic. even mommy cannot save you.
"testing"
don't wake up. fourth row just dropped.
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