From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Cc: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
James Ramsay <jramsay.com.au@syl.local>,
Bryan Turner <bturner@atlassian.com>
Subject: Re: Consensus on a new default branch name
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2020 10:32:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200616143202.GM666057@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABPp-BE3UAeMKCtwnTf-5ifVhveRPzQfT1T+sHsm_LDOubCHCQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 03:38:08PM -0700, Elijah Newren wrote:
> As I stated in the other thread[1], I'm happy 'default' isn't winning
> because I think it can lead to ambiguity about the meaning of the
> phrase "default branch" (particularly when someone changes HEAD on the
> server to point to anything other than "refs/heads/default"). I don't
> think "main branch" poses similar issues, as it's not a phrase I've
> seen used that much (in contrast to "default branch"). Also,
> "default" being ambiguous bothers me personally more than other terms
> being ambiguous, as per my story in the other thread. However, it's
> possible that there is documentation or guides somewhere that have
> used "main branch" in the past and could become ambiguous with the
> proposed change, and thus would benefit from updates.
Thanks for writing this out (I'm still catching up on list email after a
vacation, so I missed the earlier thread). It really cemented for me
that "main" is better than "default".
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-16 14:32 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
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 [this message]
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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