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Re: Avoiding 'master' nomenclature

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OOleg <lego_12239@rambler.ru>
Date
Jul 31, 2020, 08:19 UTC
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<20200731081925.GA5533@legohost>
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On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 08:57:21PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
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> On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 11:17:43AM +0300, lego_12239@rambler.ru wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 01:38:56PM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> > > The commit message describes its intent
> > >   commit 489947cee5095b168cbac111ff7bd1eadbbd90dd
> > >   Author: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
> > >   Date:   Tue Jun 23 22:33:23 2020 +0000
> > > 
> > >       fmt-merge-msg: stop treating `master` specially
> > > 
> > >       In the context of many projects renaming their primary branch names away
> > >       from `master`, Git wants to stop treating the `master` branch specially.
> > 
> > Wow. Jonathan, you are a good student of Goebbels! "many projects" :-D.
> > You lie. These are few but very noisy projects. Don't kid youself.
> 
>   - the text you are responding to isn't even Jonathan's; it was a
>     quoted commit message to give context.
Yes. It's my mistake. Sorry.
>   - if you really do want re-open the argument about whether projects
>     are interested in changing branch names, it might help to provide
>     some actual data. Most of the data-less points (on both sides) have
>     already been made in past discussions.

Most of the actual data have already been made, but polytics won out over common sense.

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Олег Неманов (Oleg Nemanov)
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Message 9 of 42 in “Avoiding 'master' nomenclature”
  1. Linus TorvaldsJul 29, 2020
  2. Junio C HamanoJul 29, 2020
  3. Linus TorvaldsJul 29, 2020
  4. Jonathan NiederJul 29, 2020
  5. Linus TorvaldsJul 29, 2020
  6. Linus TorvaldsJul 29, 2020
  7. lego_12239@rambler.ruJul 30, 2020
  8. Jeff KingJul 31, 2020
  9. OlegJul 31, 2020
  10. Linus TorvaldsJul 29, 2020
  11. Jeff KingJul 29, 2020
  12. Linus TorvaldsJul 29, 2020
  13. Jeff KingJul 30, 2020
  14. Linus TorvaldsJul 30, 2020
  15. Jeff KingJul 30, 2020
  16. Linus TorvaldsJul 30, 2020
  17. Jeff KingJul 31, 2020
  18. Junio C HamanoJul 29, 2020
  19. Junio C HamanoJul 29, 2020
  20. Jeff KingJul 30, 2020
  21. Linus TorvaldsJul 30, 2020
  22. Michal SuchánekJul 30, 2020
  23. Jeff KingJul 30, 2020
  24. Junio C HamanoJul 30, 2020
  25. 0/2 fmt-merge-msg: selectively suppress "into <branch>"Junio C Hamano, Jul 30, 2020
  26. 2/2 fmt-merge-msg: allow merge destination to be omitted againJunio C Hamano, Jul 30, 2020
  27. 1/2 Revert "fmt-merge-msg: stop treating `master` specially"Junio C Hamano, Jul 30, 2020
  28. Eric SunshineJul 30, 2020
  29. Junio C HamanoJul 30, 2020
  30. Jeff KingJul 31, 2020
  31. Junio C HamanoJul 31, 2020
  32. Jeff KingJul 31, 2020
  33. Taylor BlauJul 31, 2020
  34. Junio C HamanoJul 31, 2020
  35. Taylor BlauJul 31, 2020
  36. Michal SuchánekAug 1, 2020
  37. Johannes SchindelinAug 10, 2020
  38. Junio C HamanoAug 10, 2020
  39. Johannes SchindelinAug 11, 2020
  40. Junio C HamanoAug 12, 2020
  41. Junio C HamanoJul 29, 2020
  42. Linus TorvaldsJul 29, 2020

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