Konstantin Khomoutov writes:

> On Mon, 28 Dec 2015 22:07:38 +0100
> Magnus Therning <mag...@therning.org> wrote:
>
> [...]
>> 2. I've chosen a prefix for published branches that may be rebased,
>> "devo/".  I then make sure to communicate to the rest of the team that
>> it's not safe to base any work on branches named liked that.
>
> Just out of curiosity: why "devo"? :-)
> Is it by chance related to some term related to "development" in your
> native language?

Haha, no, it's something that's stuck with me from Gnu Arch (formerly
TLA)[1]. In the early naughties TLA was the forefront of FLOSS DVCS.

"devo" is shorter than "development", and "dev" already has a meaning on
Unix systems.

/M

[1]: http://www.gnu.org/software/gnu-arch/

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