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When I was browsing GitHub repositories I quite often saw "wip" branches (e.g. 3.1.0-wip). What does "wip" mean?
I couldn't find the answer anywhere - neither on Google nor on GitHub:help.
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On GitHub, pull requests are prefixed by [WIP] to indicate that the pull requestor. has not yet finished his work on the code (thus, work in progress), but. looks for have some initial feedback (early-pull strategy), and.
WIP Commit - convention for calling a temporary commit that is meant to be a temporary save point during the lifetime of a user story. Feature Branch - convention for calling a git branch that is used specifically to work on one user feature story.
The git branch command lets you rename a branch. To rename a branch, run git branch -m <old> <new>. “old” is the name of the branch you want to rename and “new” is the new name for the branch.
Conventionally, "wip" stands for "work in progress".
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On GitHub, pull requests are prefixed by [WIP] to indicate that the pull requestor
More motivation for WIP pull requests is written by @ben straub at https://ben.straub.cc/2015/04/02/wip-pull-request/.
New Since Februrary 2019, GitHub offers draft pull requests, which make WIP more explicit: https://github.blog/2019-02-14-introducing-draft-pull-requests/
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