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[146.198.20.226]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id k17sm23989530wrl.54.2020.06.15.03.00.56 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 15 Jun 2020 03:00:56 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] init: allow overriding the default branch name for new repositories To: Junio C Hamano , Johannes Schindelin Cc: Don Goodman-Wilson via GitGitGadget , git@vger.kernel.org, don@goodman-wilson.com, stolee@gmail.com, peff@peff.net, sandals@crustytoothpaste.net References: <90912e32da1192cfc3b39a18cb606caa46e85b1c.1591823971.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com> From: Phillip Wood Message-ID: <27936112-a29b-92d5-b506-3f88688cc5d3@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2020 11:00:55 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On 12/06/2020 17:51, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Johannes Schindelin writes: > >> I added a _brief_ extension to the context to the first commit's commit >> message. However, I do not want to go into details here because _this_ >> patch series is only about empowering users to change their default main >> branch name. > > [...] > > Sufficiently large part of the user population are unhappy with the > use of the word 'master' as the default name of the primary branch > in a newly created repository, and the mere fact that we are aware > of that is good enough justification to move _away_ from 'master'. > In other words, we do not have to explain why 'master' was bad, as > it does not have to be bad for everybody to be replaced. This expresses what I was trying to get at with my comments much more clearly than I managed - Thank you > > But you need to defend that the new word you picked is something > everybody is happy with. That is much harder ;-). Indeed, though I am more optimistic about that having seen a couple of people have indicated that they don't mind too much what we choose so long as it unlikely to cause future problems. Best Wishes Phillip