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Re:In a Git repository, where do your files live? by eru on Thursday September 14, 2023 @10:03PM (#37517332)
> Sometimes you want to keep 2 different copies of Main with different names and state

Wouldn't that just be two different branches? What does it have to do with 'main'?

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Re:In a Git repository, where do your files live? by zaphirplane on Friday September 15, 2023 @07:07AM (#37521232)
> git has no idea what branch I want to push to

Maybe i misunderstood what they mean, I thought they wanted local branches to be mirrors of origin branches.

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