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From:   Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To:     Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Cc:     Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
        Git <git@vger.kernel.org>,
        Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 4/4] init: provide useful advice about
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Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:

> On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 3:58 PM Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
> <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> +static const char default_branch_name_advice[] = N_(
>> +"Using '%s' as the name for the initial branch. This default branch name\n"
>> +"is subject to change. To configure the initial branch name to use in all\n"
>> +"of your new repositories, which will suppress this warning, call:\n"
>> +"\n"
>> +"\tgit config --global init.defaultBranch <name>\n"
>> +"\n"
>> +"Common names are 'main', 'trunk' and 'development'. The initial branch\n"
>
> This is disingenuous; the most common name is "master"... by far. In a
> couple years this might change, but not right now.
>
> If you don't want to mention "master", then don't mention "common
> names" that are not really the most common names.

Names commonly chosen by those who want to move away from 'master'
are...