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=-1.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_ADSP_NXDOMAIN, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO, RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Jerome Lovy Subject: Re: [PATCH] "master" should be treated no differently from any other branch Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 17:20:04 +0100 Message-ID: <458179B4.7020408@brefemail.com> References: <200612141519.44294.andyparkins@gmail.com> Reply-To: t2a2e9z8ncbs9qg@brefemail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 16:18:48 +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: 212.11.48.246 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 1GutID-0005aM-Cz for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 17:18:45 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932854AbWLNQSc convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:18:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932855AbWLNQSc (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:18:32 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:49918 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932854AbWLNQSb (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:18:31 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GutHu-0001LT-Sg for git@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 17:18:29 +0100 Received: from 212.11.48.246 ([212.11.48.246]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 17:18:26 +0100 Received: from t2a2e9z8ncbs9qg by 212.11.48.246 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 17:18:26 +0100 To: git@vger.kernel.org Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Hi, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Andy Parkins wrote: >=20 >> "master" shouldn't get special treatment; making different log messa= ges=20 >> based on the name of the branch is bad form. What if a user likes=20 >> "my/master" or "my/head" as their master branch? >=20 > I do not agree. There is usually a principal branch, where you collec= t the=20 > topics, and you do want to treat that special. As for the name: bette= r=20 > have a convention here than configurability. You would not want "git"= to=20 > be called "guitar" for some users, just because they happen to like t= hat=20 > name more, either, right? because I like the pattern framework described in the book "Software=20 Configuration Management Patterns", I like to use "mainline" instead of= =20 "master", for example. J=E9r=F4me