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A programming idiom is common way or pattern of writing code to solve a particular problem.

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Pros and cons of branching when fixing old code

Sometimes I discover that a commit I made two months ago had a bug. So I write a fix for the bug, but then I must choose one these ways of committing it: I can commit the fix directly onto the main u …
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