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Why is the mozilla-firefox org full of forks of the main repo named after trees?

https://github.com/mozilla-firefox



They are used for large scale landings or when a project needs to track trunk development but will churn a lot.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/ReleaseEngineering/DisposableProjec...


I haven't worked for Mozilla since 2021, but back then the branches named after trees were used as feature branches for large projects, at least until those projects were in a good enough state to cleanly merge back into trunk without breaking CI.




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