From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2020 20:34:25 GMT
Subject: Re: avoiding fetching specific refs from a remote
Message-ID: <20200805203425.GA2706898@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq1rkloyeg.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>

On Wed, Aug 05, 2020 at 09:22:47AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> 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