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On Git branch naming, in case anyone's missed the furore:
http://meta.ath0.com/2020/06/git-branch-naming/
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@mathew For anything larger than just some simple utility or dotfiles, it's probably better to use separate devel, stable, major release and bugfix branches anyways.
That approach probably has a name but it escapes me now.