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> On 14 Jun 2020, at 16:59, Thomas Adam <thomas@xteddy.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 4 May 2020 at 18:22, Simon Pieters <simon@bocoup.com> wrote:
>> To avoid offensive terminology and to avoid further inconsistency, I
>> think git should use a different branch name than "master" when
>> initiating a repo. I don't have a strong opinion, but I like "main"
>> since it shares the first two characters and it's shorter.
>
> Hi Simon,
>
> Definitely agree, and thanks for starting this.
>
> One question that's been rattling round my mind is how we change the
> documentation to suit. By that, I mean, it has become common parlance
> at the moment to say "master" as the canonical branch, because that's
> the one that's been baked as the default. Now that we're making this
> configurable, I'm curious how we're going to change our semantics to
> match the "default" branch (which was "master") when talking about git
> branches, either here on the list, or in documentation.
>
> Kindly,
> Thomas