Develop
The develop branch is the other continuously existing branch in the Git flow model, along with the master branch. All other branches are considered temporary and can be deleted after work is finished on them and they've been merged.
This branch can often be the branch that the latest nightly builds are produced from and should have the latest delivered work available on it. Note that in many work environments, code will not be committed directly to the develop branch either, instead happening on feature branches that are then merged back in when the fix or feature is completed. Not all workflows are as strict, though, and some allow bug fixes or minor changes on the develop branch. However, this can be considered bad practice as it ...
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