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Why is the mozilla-firefox org full of forks of the main repo named after trees? https://github.com/mozilla-firefox https://github.com/mozilla-firefox
by mintplant 1y ago
Why is the mozilla-firefox org full of forks of the main repo named after trees?
https://github.com/mozilla-firefox https://github.com/mozilla-firefox
- dblohm7 1y agoI 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.
- kbrosnan 1y agoThey 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/DisposableProjectRepositories https://wiki.mozilla.org/ReleaseEngineering/DisposableProjec...