From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.5 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Han-Wen Nienhuys Subject: Re: [PATCH] "master" should be treated no differently from any other branch Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 16:47:39 +0100 Message-ID: <4581721B.4050102@xs4all.nl> References: <200612141519.44294.andyparkins@gmail.com> Reply-To: hanwen@xs4all.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 15:50:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: git@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: muurbloem.xs4all.nl User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061107) In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Gusqh-0000Y7-V0 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 16:50:20 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932821AbWLNPuQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Dec 2006 10:50:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932824AbWLNPuP (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Dec 2006 10:50:15 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:55409 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932826AbWLNPuN (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Dec 2006 10:50:13 -0500 Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GusqQ-0004Ws-09 for git@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 16:50:02 +0100 Received: from muurbloem.xs4all.nl ([213.84.26.127]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 16:50:01 +0100 Received: from hanwen by muurbloem.xs4all.nl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 16:50:01 +0100 To: git@vger.kernel.org Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Johannes Schindelin escreveu: > Hi, > > On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Andy Parkins wrote: > >> "master" shouldn't get special treatment; making different log messages >> based on the name of the branch is bad form. What if a user likes >> "my/master" or "my/head" as their master branch? > > I do not agree. There is usually a principal branch, where you collect the > topics, and you do want to treat that special. As for the name: better > have a convention here than configurability. You would not want "git" to > be called "guitar" for some users, just because they happen to like that > name more, either, right? Disagree: I have two principal branches, master and stable/2.10. I don't see why the latter should get different commit messages. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - hanwen@xs4all.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen