From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Git List Mailing <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Avoiding 'master' nomenclature
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2020 04:39:57 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.2008110430080.50@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqo8nicxn2.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
Hi Junio,
On Mon, 10 Aug 2020, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
>
> > TBH I expected some discussion along the line "Shouldn't this be an
> > opt-in, with the initial default saying 'every branch except
> > `master`'?", but that seems not to have taken place.
>
> I do not quite get it. Without any explicit configuration, every branch
> except 'master' is shown, just like we've done for the past 15 years.
> You can opt into hiding other names instead of 'master', hiding nothing,
> or hiding everything.
Sorry for being unclear.
What I meant was: instead of a list of negative patterns, it might be more
desirable to have a positive list of patterns, with the option to exclude
some, much in the way `.gitignore` allows us to do. Something like this:
[merge]
mentionDestinationBranch = *
mentionDestinationBranch = !master
i.e. a list that specifies which branch names we _do_ want to mention in
the merge commit's message, with possible exceptions.
However, this might be overkill, and a bit more complicated to implement,
as we now would also have to allow "negative" patterns. The most likely
avenue to this would be to use the `exclude_list` machinery, which would
be doubly confusing because we no longer would _exclude_ but _include_ a
set of branch names.
I am not sure that it makes sense to pursue this direction, but I wanted
to at least mention it lest we bump into limitations later that cannot be
fixed, by design.
What do you think?
Ciao,
Dscho
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-11 8:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-29 19:44 Avoiding 'master' nomenclature Linus Torvalds
2020-07-29 20:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-29 20:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-07-29 20:38 ` Jonathan Nieder
2020-07-29 20:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-07-29 20:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-07-30 8:17 ` lego_12239
2020-07-31 0:57 ` Jeff King
2020-07-31 8:19 ` Oleg
2020-07-29 20:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-07-29 20:58 ` Jeff King
2020-07-29 21:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-07-30 0:29 ` Jeff King
2020-07-30 0:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-07-30 0:52 ` Jeff King
2020-07-30 0:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-07-31 0:44 ` Jeff King
2020-07-29 21:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-29 22:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-30 0:14 ` Jeff King
2020-07-30 0:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-07-30 10:11 ` Michal Suchánek
2020-07-30 0:31 ` Jeff King
2020-07-30 0:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-30 18:02 ` [PATCH v3 0/2] fmt-merge-msg: selectively suppress "into <branch>" Junio C Hamano
2020-07-30 18:02 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] Revert "fmt-merge-msg: stop treating `master` specially" Junio C Hamano
2020-07-30 19:10 ` Eric Sunshine
2020-07-30 19:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-30 18:02 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] fmt-merge-msg: allow merge destination to be omitted again Junio C Hamano
2020-07-31 0:42 ` [PATCH v3 0/2] fmt-merge-msg: selectively suppress "into <branch>" Jeff King
2020-07-31 2:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-31 2:22 ` Jeff King
2020-07-31 20:03 ` Taylor Blau
2020-07-31 20:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-31 20:17 ` Taylor Blau
2020-08-01 7:15 ` Michal Suchánek
2020-08-10 11:53 ` Avoiding 'master' nomenclature Johannes Schindelin
2020-08-10 15:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-11 2:39 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2020-08-12 0:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-29 20:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-29 20:51 ` Linus Torvalds
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