Re: [PATCH] "master" should be treated no differently from any other branch

[Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>]

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:

> 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.

I also agree to disagree.  "master" is maybe the default branch, but it 
is not so special to deserve a different message than any other branch.