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=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,BODY_8BITS, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN, FREEMAIL_FROM,FREEMAIL_REPLYTO_END_DIGIT,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 B75901F5AE for ; Tue, 16 Jun 2020 14:51:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1729045AbgFPOvO (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Jun 2020 10:51:14 -0400 Received: from huan6.mail.rambler.ru ([81.19.78.5]:42628 "EHLO huan6.mail.rambler.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726341AbgFPOvN (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Jun 2020 10:51:13 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=rambler.ru; s=mail; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:MIME-Version: References:Reply-To:Message-ID:Subject:To:From:Date; bh=oLfS8mBkQr7GIoFAiSDp8u6cAgTxQiPujoCaiVGUnmE=; b=h+HgGRoJJoxHRRKN18reI+/n6G zXJHm9nmlsw5M1wI7ypLIe5j3wjIe6gDABwXiE3dllfSZaTb+am65w9hK4TYSTDPMQOc7zd7EHjvg SSLoPa+ZeWyGob2cLdRTw7roPq9HRbFqGAf8FzIxFGcJJOX6cuoqX0ieJ3hI621ah2Ew=; Received: from [UNAVAILABLE] ([194.190.114.28]:36318 helo=localhost) by huan6.mail.rambler.ru with esmtpa (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jlCve-0001DE-Nv for git@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 16 Jun 2020 17:51:10 +0300 Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2020 17:52:52 +0300 From: Oleg To: git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Consensus on a new default branch name Message-ID: <20200616145207.GA13998@legohost> Reply-To: Oleg References: <20200615205722.GG71506@syl.local> <20200615212154.GA79696@syl.local> <20200616143107.GL666057@coredump.intra.peff.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20200616143107.GL666057@coredump.intra.peff.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.12.1 (2019-06-15) X-Rambler-User: lego_12239@rambler.ru/194.190.114.28 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 10:31:07AM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > stopping at configurability is the least risky thing there. But it's > clear that a lot of projects are interested in changing their names, so Jeff, where do you get your statistics? github, for example, have around 100 million repos. How many of them want to do it? > > > My interpretation thus far is that 'main' is the planned replacement for > > > 'master'. Consensus seems to have formed around this name [5], but if that's > > > incorrect--or there are yet-unvoiced opinions that you would like to share--now > > > is the time to discuss further. > > My opinion is that "main" is the best suggestion I've heard. I have a better suggestion, imho. Let's make "master" a default name. Thus: 1. we willn't break utilities and user hopes; this is a backward compatibility. 2. we will see how many projects really need this "feature". I think backward compatibility is a reasonable and useful thing. And if this is not a political-driven changes, i see no technical reason to not do so. -- Олег Неманов (Oleg Nemanov)