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=-3.4 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED, DKIM_SIGNED,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Andy Parkins Subject: Re: [PATCH] "master" should be treated no differently from any other branch Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 16:25:07 +0000 Message-ID: <200612141625.08485.andyparkins@gmail.com> References: <200612141519.44294.andyparkins@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 16:25:23 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=tJBcAkcP1mRSoUEuGm5o8pwlhwSQ6ggNLIpnAX6Hg9k/8Kz6G8ZlwuBbzXjF7+j/dq8bK0/6LkxLU6lAWM/ciB/vVvbmGK/RtW6ZqZqjANm2myWvgQ5RT1dyJSzMra3pSz2hAE5WZX5VIk1KR49gmUc09wDCpychs7b0QlZXYXk= User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline 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 1GutOZ-0006i1-F9 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 17:25:19 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932857AbWLNQZQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:25:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932859AbWLNQZQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:25:16 -0500 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.169]:29411 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932857AbWLNQZN (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:25:13 -0500 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 44so544853uga for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 08:25:12 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.67.100.17 with SMTP id c17mr1659499ugm.1166113511984; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 08:25:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from dvr.360vision.com ( [194.70.53.227]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 28sm2217955ugc.2006.12.14.08.25.11; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 08:25:11 -0800 (PST) To: git@vger.kernel.org Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 2006 December 14 15:29, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > 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 While there might _usually_ be a principal branch; the special casing is _always_ hard coded. > 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? You're correct; but we're talking about branch names not program names. Making "master" special rather than simply a default means git is dictating policy. It isn't git's place to decide what my branches are called, especially as it is git itself that lets me choose freely to begin with. Andy -- Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIEE