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From: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Matt McCutchen <matt@mattmccutchen.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Renaming the "master" branch without breaking existing clones
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2020 14:20:54 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <90305e1e-c161-42f3-ab3b-92fc423d17c6@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqtuxjva6w.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>

On 04-08-2020 00:17, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>>
>> Of course. Though, having a symbolic ref of 'pu/seen' to 'seen' would
>> hopefully not defeat the plan while being a little helpful ;)
> 
> How would that be helpful?  After all, I do want to allow us accept
> a topic about 'seen' from author 'pu', and that pu/seen branch
> should be different from the "not yet ready for 'next' but at least
> the maintainer acknowledges that he has seen them" integration
> branch whose name is 'seen'.
> 

I thought 'seen' was blunt for a topic name in the sense that it doesn't
convey what the topic does about 'seen'. So, having a symbolic ref of
'pu/seen' to 'seen' might be a good allusion to the fact that 'pu' has
been renamed to 'seen' just by looking at the list of remote branches.

-- 
Sivaraam

      reply	other threads:[~2020-08-04  8:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-03 12:15 Renaming the "master" branch without breaking existing clones Matt McCutchen
2020-08-03 16:00 ` Taylor Blau
2020-08-03 16:19   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-03 16:39     ` Taylor Blau
2020-08-03 19:40   ` Jeff King
2020-08-03 20:40     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-03 20:45     ` Jeff King
2020-08-03 21:02       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-03 21:11         ` Jeff King
2020-08-03 21:38           ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-04  0:37     ` Matt McCutchen
2020-08-04  0:43   ` Matt McCutchen
2020-08-03 16:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-03 17:41   ` Matt McCutchen
2020-08-03 18:20   ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2020-08-03 18:47     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-04  8:50       ` Kaartic Sivaraam [this message]

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