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Tue, 4 Jun 2024 03:56:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: by localhost (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id b1feb0b2 (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256:NO); Tue, 4 Jun 2024 07:55:49 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2024 09:56:13 +0200 From: Patrick Steinhardt To: =?utf-8?B?UnViw6lu?= Justo Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Branches are branches and not heads Message-ID: References: <20240603200539.1473345-1-gitster@pobox.com> <511c8bf6-9dea-4bac-9f9b-fd400bbad7b3@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="HI+OH3/qvcn0JApp" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <511c8bf6-9dea-4bac-9f9b-fd400bbad7b3@gmail.com> --HI+OH3/qvcn0JApp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jun 03, 2024 at 11:32:18PM +0200, Rub=C3=A9n Justo wrote: > On Mon, Jun 03, 2024 at 01:05:36PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > Back when Git started, we used the word "head" to mean the tip of > > possibly multiple histories, and that is where the name of the > > hierarchy .git/refs/heads/ came from. But these days we call these > > entities "branches" in human terms, and "head" is still used to refer > > to the tip of the history each of these branches represent. > >=20 > > When asking "git ls-remote" or "git show-ref" to limit their output to > > branches (as opposed to showing any ref), we use "--heads" for > > historical reasons, but give the option a more human friendly name > > "--branches", and demote "--heads" to the status of a deprecated > > synonym. This would eventually allow us to remove them at the > > breaking version boundary. >=20 > All of this sounds like a very sensible step, to me. >=20 > I've left a couple of nits; none important.=20 Agreed, I like the direction of this patch series very much. I've got nothing to add on top of what has already been said. Thanks! 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