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848 points thefilmore | 3 comments | 13 May 25 05:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.489s | source
1. mintplant ◴[13 May 25 10:28 UTC] No.43971446[source]▶
Why is the mozilla-firefox org full of forks of the main repo named after trees?

https://github.com/mozilla-firefox

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2. dblohm7 ◴[13 May 25 14:56 UTC] No.43973665[source]▶
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.
3. kbrosnan ◴[13 May 25 20:44 UTC] No.43977503[source]▶
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...