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, work in progress), 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 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/
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15763059/github-what-is-a-wip-branch