From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.0 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E96AD1F5AE for ; Wed, 29 Jul 2020 20:40:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726709AbgG2Ukm (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Jul 2020 16:40:42 -0400 Received: from pb-smtp1.pobox.com ([64.147.108.70]:62627 "EHLO pb-smtp1.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726476AbgG2Ukm (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Jul 2020 16:40:42 -0400 Received: from pb-smtp1.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0444A80A37; Wed, 29 Jul 2020 16:40:40 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=P4GxlODFwnfmPz/Y4yclmkTjECY=; b=JwBBWB 1ogTfvYy1Djcnfff2rlfUbAT8GrzJDdnRCCRkPTsP84NzOxXwkg6N1TAhYqS1xzR j1nbZIqo2B5Pa1OZAzxCIOaz2xU/j4dXQFiFqmWuyzOK9Q5tBlVKjpzhGTVHMY/U AhJPRhLaguiCyF3ZOHEgFzHtoMXyA1CSmhM6A= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=SB7YDBM7XWqhtiagjqUZ2F2AqzOs7BLO BLT5wt3mFpK1dsv8rIviF1jx5YtlXGnHykNZYeEypnc4EpJtS6yjgDssuqqGqAzw 4a2f3dgjdL8MBtr1K1x4VWb96zb9yf7T2GLicg0zWhh2H1Y9vhQRK/sBmdMm9UBS r5DXNOFXowo= Received: from pb-smtp1.nyi.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE3E380A36; Wed, 29 Jul 2020 16:40:39 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [35.196.173.25]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6D64680A35; Wed, 29 Jul 2020 16:40:39 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) From: Junio C Hamano To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Johannes Schindelin , Git List Mailing Subject: Re: Avoiding 'master' nomenclature References: Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 13:40:38 -0700 In-Reply-To: (Linus Torvalds's message of "Wed, 29 Jul 2020 13:23:33 -0700") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Pobox-Relay-ID: C367C32C-D1DB-11EA-80CC-01D9BED8090B-77302942!pb-smtp1.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds writes: > Even if you don't want to treat "master" specially, there's two actual > reasons to do so: > > (a) the technical one: it's the old default one in a lot of existing > repositories, so if there is no defaultBranchName, it effectively > _was_ that > > (b) the non-technical one: if the aim is to get rid of "master" > terminology, THAT IS EXACTLY what the code did before it was removed. > > So really. Both from a technical _and_ a terminology angle, that > commit was just wrong. Your "if the aim is" is curious---the change is not particularly aimed for that. As far as I understand it, it was also to retire the "one single thing is special among others" mentality (which by the way I find somewhat offending). The original did two things wrong, i.e. treated one thing specially, and designated 'master' which has been declared a dirty word as that special thing. Killing these two wrongs with one stone does not feel so stupid.