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Last Updated: 2024-04-19
During Project S, we had a mobile app and a backend application in distinct
repos. We had master and development branches. We had production and staging
deploys. And we had local, staging, and production environments. All of these
got confused with one another in communicating, because I might assume staging
and Y might assume local etc.
Therefore the best practice was to specify all these parameters in comms. I.e. - repo - branch - env