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by resonious 690 days ago
He specifically mentions version control and avoiding merge conflicts, so I'm pretty sure it's stuff like git that he's finding himself cautious about.
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That makes sense, but then why not just work on trunk and don't worry about branching?
How do you get a merge conflict with yourself?
By maintaining a family of related forks/branches: https://akkartik.name/freewheeling
Thanks a bunch, now the coffee is on my keyboard.
By trying really hard