GitHub: What is a “wip” branch?
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. Conventionally, "wip" stands for "work in progress". On GitHub, pull requests are prefixed by [WIP] to indicate that the pull requestor has not yet finished his work on the code (thus, w ork i n p rogress), but looks for have some initial feedback ( early-pull strategy ), and wants to use the continuous integration infrastructure of the project. For instance, TravisCI , CodeCov , and codacy . More