I always thought "master" should be called "production".
I absolutely agree with this, except in cases of repos where they don't use the default branch for production code.
There's plenty of repos that have a release or prod branch, and use master as their development branch.
release
prod
master
Really, we should just call these branches what they are, and avoid ambiguous naming altogether.
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I always thought "master" should be called "production".
I absolutely agree with this, except in cases of repos where they don't use the default branch for production code.
There's plenty of repos that have a
releaseorprodbranch, and usemasteras their development branch.Really, we should just call these branches what they are, and avoid ambiguous naming altogether.