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=-3.8 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 B2A761F5AE for ; Wed, 17 Jun 2020 20:13:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726845AbgFQUNu (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Jun 2020 16:13:50 -0400 Received: from pb-smtp20.pobox.com ([173.228.157.52]:50432 "EHLO pb-smtp20.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726496AbgFQUNu (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Jun 2020 16:13:50 -0400 Received: from pb-smtp20.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp20.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D07CCC1998; Wed, 17 Jun 2020 16:13:48 -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=ZtT4O3G5A/W9MtWB27k7b5CIjDA=; b=aGvUt6 bIKaZTu8bFTIyUwedCiR3a2+R+BAf9TuJCnBTW/iP0vkr6ujgh5t4QCgdJ9ph9gf 1ErHoJPpB0on90khWs6Q5a6Y//mczvgPaqcY2R6ZFdk/t4HeoQXNLRNTziXdkOzN 7EHhOsxEqezUBx5pvbEEaBgladLfJTTYx0Ztc= 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=eM7nlPPgKO01QKRj0yAaDFD6nlRk00LJ 7jKE8lZOQI1bnzXFFKmBofFNt1S8U30E5AC9NsLra1Z0e1OsZg6yiYebQ4kFNOtA zdsZPgHXH3JGdFrvMukIeRMJ5Ge8F9gYgCbjcVSbv7OKjXqI0PPurSZp4bGz6VbX LZ8F8be8AIA= Received: from pb-smtp20.sea.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp20.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7C87C1997; Wed, 17 Jun 2020 16:13:48 -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-smtp20.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 12800C1991; Wed, 17 Jun 2020 16:13:45 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) From: Junio C Hamano To: Jeff King Cc: Elijah Newren , Taylor Blau , Git Mailing List , James Ramsay , Bryan Turner Subject: Re: Consensus on a new default branch name References: <20200615205722.GG71506@syl.local> <20200616143202.GM666057@coredump.intra.peff.net> Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2020 13:13:44 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20200616143202.GM666057@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Tue, 16 Jun 2020 10:32:02 -0400") 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: 0C69C14A-B0D7-11EA-B1DB-B0405B776F7B-77302942!pb-smtp20.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Jeff King writes: > Thanks for writing this out (I'm still catching up on list email after a > vacation, so I missed the earlier thread). It really cemented for me > that "main" is better than "default". In any case, it makes sense to use separate words for the concept ("default" --- as in "the name given to the first branch created in the repository by default") and the actualy value chosen for the entity (master or main in this case). The statement: I configure in ~/.gitconfig that the default branch name for all my repositories to be 'main' is much easier to read than the last 'main' replaced with 'default'.