How to name branch in gitflow for 'update/upgrade third-party packages'?

Question

I'm working on update npm libraries (third-party packages) but I dont know to name branch: feature, hotfix, another?.

What do you recommends me?

Parenthood

Answer 1

That would be a feature branch, used to isolate a development effort.

In your case: feature/upgradetp, to test in your own branch the upgrade of third-party packages.
If that works, then you can merge in develop for integration testing, and finally master for release.

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Atlassian has a nice presentation of feature branch as part of a workflow:

The core idea behind the Feature Branch Workflow is that all feature development should take place in a dedicated branch instead of the main branch.

This encapsulation makes it easy for multiple developers to work on a particular feature without disturbing the main codebase.
It also means the main branch will never contain broken code, which is a huge advantage for continuous integration environments.

Same idea with Mergify's decription of feature branch.

Another name is "topic branch", used with gitworkflow, that I present here.

Idiomorphic

Would be nice with a reference or an explanation why to use "feature" here. But I appreciate it anyway. Thanks – Girl

@DennisDyallo I have edited the answer to add some references. – Idiomorphic