From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
Git List Mailing <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Avoiding 'master' nomenclature
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 13:40:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqa6zi9hrt.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wisOOrfEvab9S417MnPSY8dVkbDOKa6ccdi1Bg3X1PMaw@mail.gmail.com> (Linus Torvalds's message of "Wed, 29 Jul 2020 13:23:33 -0700")
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> Even if you don't want to treat "master" specially, there's two actual
> reasons to do so:
>
> (a) the technical one: it's the old default one in a lot of existing
> repositories, so if there is no defaultBranchName, it effectively
> _was_ that
>
> (b) the non-technical one: if the aim is to get rid of "master"
> terminology, THAT IS EXACTLY what the code did before it was removed.
>
> So really. Both from a technical _and_ a terminology angle, that
> commit was just wrong.
Your "if the aim is" is curious---the change is not particularly
aimed for that. As far as I understand it, it was also to retire
the "one single thing is special among others" mentality (which by
the way I find somewhat offending).
The original did two things wrong, i.e. treated one thing specially,
and designated 'master' which has been declared a dirty word as that
special thing. Killing these two wrongs with one stone does not
feel so stupid.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-29 20:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-29 19:44 Avoiding 'master' nomenclature Linus Torvalds
2020-07-29 20:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-29 20:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-07-29 20:38 ` Jonathan Nieder
2020-07-29 20:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-07-29 20:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-07-30 8:17 ` lego_12239
2020-07-31 0:57 ` Jeff King
2020-07-31 8:19 ` Oleg
2020-07-29 20:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-07-29 20:58 ` Jeff King
2020-07-29 21:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-07-30 0:29 ` Jeff King
2020-07-30 0:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-07-30 0:52 ` Jeff King
2020-07-30 0:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-07-31 0:44 ` Jeff King
2020-07-29 21:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-29 22:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-30 0:14 ` Jeff King
2020-07-30 0:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-07-30 10:11 ` Michal Suchánek
2020-07-30 0:31 ` Jeff King
2020-07-30 0:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-30 18:02 ` [PATCH v3 0/2] fmt-merge-msg: selectively suppress "into <branch>" Junio C Hamano
2020-07-30 18:02 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] Revert "fmt-merge-msg: stop treating `master` specially" Junio C Hamano
2020-07-30 19:10 ` Eric Sunshine
2020-07-30 19:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-30 18:02 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] fmt-merge-msg: allow merge destination to be omitted again Junio C Hamano
2020-07-31 0:42 ` [PATCH v3 0/2] fmt-merge-msg: selectively suppress "into <branch>" Jeff King
2020-07-31 2:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-31 2:22 ` Jeff King
2020-07-31 20:03 ` Taylor Blau
2020-07-31 20:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-31 20:17 ` Taylor Blau
2020-08-01 7:15 ` Michal Suchánek
2020-08-10 11:53 ` Avoiding 'master' nomenclature Johannes Schindelin
2020-08-10 15:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-11 2:39 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-08-12 0:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-29 20:40 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2020-07-29 20:51 ` Linus Torvalds
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