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Re: avoiding fetching specific refs from a remote

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Aug 5, 2020, 20:34 UTC
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<20200805203425.GA2706898@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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<xmqq1rkloyeg.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
On Wed, Aug 05, 2020 at 09:22:47AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> >> Essentially, because both main and master have similar names, tab
> >> completion requires remembering to type one additional character than
> >> I am used to.
> >
> > Heh, I didn't think anybody considered that implication so far; the fact
> > that they were similar names has generally been considered a positive. I
> > agree it would be annoying.
> 
> FWIW, I've been saying that 'maint' will become harder to type all
> along ever since I heard 'main'.
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqtuz9tq30.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com/

True, but I thought that was just a reason against "main" in git.git itself. Most repos don't have "maint" (and we already conflicted on "ma" with the existing name :) though I agree that having one as a prefix of the other makes completion doubly painful). The interesting bit here is that the old name probably _isn't_ going away immediately, so this would affect everybody.

-Peff
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