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mintplant ◴[13 May 25 10:28 UTC] No.43971446[source]▶

>>43969827 (OP) #

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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1. dblohm7 ◴[13 May 25 14:56 UTC] No.43973665[source]▶

>>43971446 #

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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