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Discussion on: How to rename your master branch to something else

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Jason C. McDonald

I'll be adopting devel for my team's repositories, complementary to our fresh and stable branches.

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Ben Halpern

We're looking at...

edge (master)
testing (alpha)
release (beta)
stable
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Jason C. McDonald

Oooooo, I like edge even better than devel. I think I'll have to discuss this with my team.

The beautiful upshot of renaming master is that we can reopen some important conversations about repository workflow. We've all taken the master branch for granted, but we all use it differently. Perhaps its time we change that, and perhaps this will help.

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Saeed Ahmad

Yeah exactly. Now, we can rethink our strategies regarding that.

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Saeed Ahmad

I really like these names. Thank you for sharing Ben!

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Saeed Ahmad

Oh yes. These names sound good too.

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