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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] init: provide useful advice about init.defaultBranch
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2020 18:07:30 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq4klgq10d.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqft51osnu.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Sun, 22 Nov 2020 15:53:09 -0800")

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

>> +static const char default_branch_name_advice[] = N_(
>> +"Using '%s' as the name for the initial branch. This name is subject\n"
>> +"to change. To configure the name to use as the initial branch name in\n"
>> +"new repositories, or to silence this warning, run:\n"
>
> s/new repositories/all of your new repositories/ as that is the
> whole point of using --global option below.
>
>> +"\n"
>> +"\tgit config --global init.defaultBranch <name>\n"
>> +);
>> +

The above may give a valuable lesson to those who want to use one
branch name across new repositories, but it does not tell those who
wanted 'trunk' (to match the project, perhaps github.com/cli/cli,
with which they intend to interact) how to recover from having
already created the 'master' branch.  We may want to add some text
to suggest "branch -M" after giving the advice for the permanent
option.

Also, it is unclear to those who do not have a good <name> in mind
(or, those who do not care to choose a <name> for themselves), what
<name> they should give to take the "or to silence this warning"
part of the advice.  It probably is a good idea to rephrase and say
either:

    ... To configure ... in all your new repositories and squelch
    this message, run:

	git config --global init.defaultBranch <name>

or

    ... To configure ... in all your new repositories, run:

	git config --global init.defaultBranch <name>

    Note that this message won't appear after doing so.

I am offhand not sure which one is better.

Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-23  2:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-22 23:23 [PATCH 0/3] Add helpful advice about init.defaultBranch Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-11-22 23:23 ` [PATCH 1/3] init: document `init.defaultBranch` better Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-11-22 23:40   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-11-23 12:07     ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-11-22 23:23 ` [PATCH 2/3] get_default_branch_name(): prepare for showing some advice Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-11-22 23:23 ` [PATCH 3/3] init: provide useful advice about init.defaultBranch Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-11-22 23:53   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-11-23  2:07     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2020-11-23 12:28       ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-11-23 18:40         ` Junio C Hamano
2020-11-23 20:46           ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-11-23 21:28             ` Junio C Hamano
2020-11-23 12:26     ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-11-23 12:49   ` Philip Oakley
2020-11-23 20:47     ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-11-23 23:20 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] Add helpful " Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-11-23 23:20   ` [PATCH v2 1/4] init: document `init.defaultBranch` better Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-11-23 23:20   ` [PATCH v2 2/4] branch -m: allow renaming a yet-unborn branch Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-11-23 23:45     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-11-24  5:47       ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-11-24 20:14         ` Junio C Hamano
2020-11-23 23:20   ` [PATCH v2 3/4] get_default_branch_name(): prepare for showing some advice Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-11-23 23:20   ` [PATCH v2 4/4] init: provide useful advice about init.defaultBranch Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-11-23 23:53     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-11-24  5:57       ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-11-24 20:53         ` Junio C Hamano
2020-12-09 14:47           ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-12-09 22:15             ` Junio C Hamano
2020-12-10 12:12               ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-12-10 23:32                 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-12-10  0:40             ` Felipe Contreras
2020-11-24 15:07   ` [PATCH v3 0/4] Add helpful " Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-11-24 15:07     ` [PATCH v3 1/4] init: document `init.defaultBranch` better Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-11-24 15:07     ` [PATCH v3 2/4] branch -m: allow renaming a yet-unborn branch Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-11-24 15:07     ` [PATCH v3 3/4] get_default_branch_name(): prepare for showing some advice Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-11-24 15:07     ` [PATCH v3 4/4] init: provide useful advice about init.defaultBranch Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-12-10 21:58     ` [PATCH v4 0/4] Add helpful " Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-12-10 21:58       ` [PATCH v4 1/4] init: document `init.defaultBranch` better Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-12-11  0:24         ` Felipe Contreras
2020-12-11  5:47           ` Junio C Hamano
2020-12-11  6:26             ` Felipe Contreras
2020-12-11  5:59           ` Junio C Hamano
2020-12-10 21:58       ` [PATCH v4 2/4] branch -m: allow renaming a yet-unborn branch Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-12-10 21:58       ` [PATCH v4 3/4] get_default_branch_name(): prepare for showing some advice Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-12-10 21:58       ` [PATCH v4 4/4] init: provide useful advice about init.defaultBranch Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-12-11  0:15         ` Felipe Contreras
2020-12-11  1:22           ` Junio C Hamano
2020-12-11  0:47             ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-12-11  2:00             ` Felipe Contreras
2020-12-11 11:36       ` [PATCH v5 0/4] Add helpful " Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-12-11 11:36         ` [PATCH v5 1/4] init: document `init.defaultBranch` better Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-12-11 11:36         ` [PATCH v5 2/4] branch -m: allow renaming a yet-unborn branch Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-12-11 11:36         ` [PATCH v5 3/4] get_default_branch_name(): prepare for showing some advice Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-12-11 11:36         ` [PATCH v5 4/4] init: provide useful advice about init.defaultBranch Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2021-02-02 21:24           ` SZEDER Gábor
2021-02-02 22:25             ` Junio C Hamano
2021-02-03  5:20               ` SZEDER Gábor

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