• Deebster@programming.dev
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    9 months ago

    On the plus side, forcing people to support alternative branch names surely has led to better software support for a core Git feature.

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      9 months ago

      That’s like forcing people to have different color shoe laces and calling it good practice. In reality it changed nothing but forced a lot of people to work on solving issues with their scripts and automation tools for the sake of change instead of spending that time on writing actual code and fixing bugs.