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From: Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Consensus on a new default branch name
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2020 13:44:49 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200616134449.1c27cf7c@mydesk.domain.cxm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200616161001.fa5wa2br5ois2csr@chatter.i7.local>

On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 12:10:01 -0400
Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> What if we work on making this configurable for now, but stick with
> the legacy name until we introduce breaking sha1 changes? Almost
> everything will need to retool for those anyway (and all
> documentation rewritten), so it is reasonable to bundle these changes
> to happen at the same time.

Makes perfect sense to me. No reasonable person can argue against
giving individual repository owners the ability to *easily* call their
"primary" branch anything they want.

This flame war plus the publicity it generated lets everybody know that
someday, whether in 1 month or 5 years, the default will be something
other than "master", so they'll start changing their software and
scripts to accommodate a variable instead of a hardcode, so when the
change happens, there will be minimal software disruption and minimal
hurt feelings.

SteveT

Steve Litt 
May 2020 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques
     of the Successful Technologist
http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-06-16 17:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-15 20:57 Consensus on a new default branch name Taylor Blau
2020-06-15 21:10 ` Santiago Torres Arias
2020-06-15 21:21 ` Taylor Blau
2020-06-16 14:31   ` Jeff King
2020-06-16 14:52     ` Oleg
2020-06-16 16:00       ` Jeff King
2020-06-16 17:11         ` Oleg
2020-06-16 17:32           ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2020-06-16 18:54             ` Oleg
2020-06-16 22:18           ` Jeff King
2020-06-16 16:10     ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2020-06-16 16:13       ` Santiago Torres Arias
2020-06-16 16:48         ` Jeff King
2020-06-16 16:14       ` Jason Pyeron
2020-06-16 16:47       ` Jeff King
2020-06-16 17:44       ` Steve Litt [this message]
2020-06-16 19:00         ` Oleg
2020-06-17 18:06     ` Michal Suchánek
2020-07-01 17:31       ` Michal Suchánek
2020-07-01 21:57         ` Jeff King
2020-07-02 12:21           ` Whinis
2020-07-02 21:15             ` Philip Oakley
2020-07-02 21:59               ` Whinis
2020-07-02 22:47                 ` Philip Oakley
2020-07-02 23:08                   ` Whinis
2020-07-01 22:25         ` Jonathan Nieder
2020-06-15 22:38 ` Elijah Newren
2020-06-16 14:32   ` Jeff King
2020-06-17 20:13     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-06-15 23:24 ` brian m. carlson
2020-06-16  0:50 ` James Ramsay
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-06-16  1:58 Nomen Nescio
2020-06-16  2:22 ` Jonathan Nieder
2020-06-16  2:31   ` Taylor Blau
2020-06-16 14:38   ` Jeff King
2020-06-17  0:01 Anonymous Remailer (austria)

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