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What's the reason for using a "develop" branch?
See original GitHub issueCurious why we are calling it “develop” and not just using “master” since this is our own repository and not a fork.
I think the name itself is kind of trivial, but remembering to git checkout develop instead of master feels like an unnecessary cognitive overhead to remember. I’m just curious if there’s a specific reason for this, or plans to change it to master at some point?
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Ok well I’m not going to go down that hole of transitioning today. I imagine/hope that you can just delete the master branch and rename the develop branch to master
@chrisjsewell nice compromise, I like the idea 😃