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mintplant
10 months ago
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Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo
Why is the mozilla-firefox org full of forks of the main repo named after trees?
https://github.com/mozilla-firefox
kbrosnan
10 months ago
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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...
dblohm7
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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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