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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	Git List Mailing <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Avoiding 'master' nomenclature
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 13:04:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqime69jfc.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wgutLH=mPdJkLU_E6gO4q0FcG+=EEQJVVQeb+OxG9CfgQ@mail.gmail.com> (Linus Torvalds's message of "Wed, 29 Jul 2020 12:44:54 -0700")

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> It turns out that commit 489947cee5 ("fmt-merge-msg: stop treating
> `master` specially") has the exact opposite effect of what the
> intention must have been.
>
> It may remove "master" from git, but what it does is then make it much
> more visible everywhere else.
>
> In fact, it doesn't even remove "master" from git itself. It just adds
> more of it into the test suite etc.
>
> So that commit is doubly stupid. If the intent was to try to avoid
> "master" as a word, it failed on every single possible level.

The intent was to stop treating 'master' as some kind of 'special'
word, since it is no longer special after init.defaultBranchName was
invented.

It could have been coded to start treating the word that is set to
init.defaultBranchName as a new 'special' word, but the chosen
design is to say there is no special branch name anywhere.  One
reason behind that design is because the concept of "one thing being
special among all others" does not necessarily hold in all projects
anyway.


  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-29 20:05 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 [this message]
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
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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