From: Jerome Lovy <t2a2e9z8ncbs9qg@brefemail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] "master" should be treated no differently from any other branch
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 17:20:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <458179B4.7020408@brefemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0612141627090.3635@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
Hi,
Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 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?
because I like the pattern framework described in the book "Software
Configuration Management Patterns", I like to use "mainline" instead of
"master", for example.
Jérôme
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-14 16:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-14 15:19 [PATCH] "master" should be treated no differently from any other branch Andy Parkins
2006-12-14 15:29 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-12-14 15:47 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2006-12-14 15:57 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-12-14 15:59 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2006-12-14 16:14 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-12-15 10:29 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-12-14 18:22 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-12-14 16:20 ` Jerome Lovy [this message]
2006-12-15 21:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-12-14 16:25 ` Andy Parkins
2006-12-14 16:34 ` Andy Parkins
2006-12-14 16:39 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-12-14 17:42 ` John W. Linville
2006-12-14 18:35 ` Robin Rosenberg
2006-12-14 20:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-12-14 21:23 ` Andy Parkins
2006-12-14 21:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-12-14 21:37 ` Andy Parkins
2006-12-14 21:57 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-12-15 10:35 ` Jakub Narebski
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