From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.0 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_PASS, SPF_PASS shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B1141F990 for ; Wed, 5 Aug 2020 20:34:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727900AbgHEUeg (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Aug 2020 16:34:36 -0400 Received: from cloud.peff.net ([104.130.231.41]:49594 "EHLO cloud.peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727928AbgHEUe1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Aug 2020 16:34:27 -0400 Received: (qmail 15341 invoked by uid 109); 5 Aug 2020 20:34:26 -0000 Received: from Unknown (HELO peff.net) (10.0.1.2) by cloud.peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.94) with ESMTP; Wed, 05 Aug 2020 20:34:26 +0000 Authentication-Results: cloud.peff.net; auth=none Received: (qmail 27290 invoked by uid 111); 5 Aug 2020 20:34:25 -0000 Received: from coredump.intra.peff.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.2) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.94) with (TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Wed, 05 Aug 2020 16:34:25 -0400 Authentication-Results: peff.net; auth=none Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2020 16:34:25 -0400 From: Jeff King To: Junio C Hamano Cc: Jacob Keller , Git mailing list Subject: Re: avoiding fetching specific refs from a remote Message-ID: <20200805203425.GA2706898@coredump.intra.peff.net> References: <20200805063704.GA2690083@coredump.intra.peff.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Aug 05, 2020 at 09:22:47AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeff King writes: > > >> Essentially, because both main and master have similar names, tab > >> completion requires remembering to type one additional character than > >> I am used to. > > > > Heh, I didn't think anybody considered that implication so far; the fact > > that they were similar names has generally been considered a positive. I > > agree it would be annoying. > > FWIW, I've been saying that 'maint' will become harder to type all > along ever since I heard 'main'. > > https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqtuz9tq30.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com/ True, but I thought that was just a reason against "main" in git.git itself. Most repos don't have "maint" (and we already conflicted on "ma" with the existing name :) though I agree that having one as a prefix of the other makes completion doubly painful). The interesting bit here is that the old name probably _isn't_ going away immediately, so this would affect everybody. -Peff