Git Branching Practices
Discussions center on Git branching workflows, best practices for using branches instead of direct commits, the transition from 'master' to 'main' as default branch names, and GitHub's branch policies.
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NB: this is a branch, rather than a fork.
what do you mean "use Git branches"?
developer branches never make sense
Github werent terribly happy with the number of branches we created for this type of use case at one point.
What if you name a branch in your repo "master"?
Whatever you do, always do it on a branch!
Master/main? It's a single branch workflow.
Why not use branches for that? That's often for people to it.
That tooling is wrong: you could always change the default branch on git.
I'm a developer who maintains repositories with master branches. It is exactly about me.