Re: [PATCH 1/9] init: allow overriding the default branch name for new repositories

From: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 15, 2020, 10:00 UTC
Message-ID: <27936112-a29b-92d5-b506-3f88688cc5d3@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqlfks2pod.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>

On 12/06/2020 17:51, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
>> I added a _brief_ extension to the context to the first commit's commit
>> message. However, I do not want to go into details here because _this_
>> patch series is only about empowering users to change their default main
>> branch name.
> 
> [...]
> 
> Sufficiently large part of the user population are unhappy with the
> use of the word 'master' as the default name of the primary branch
> in a newly created repository, and the mere fact that we are aware
> of that is good enough justification to move _away_ from 'master'.
> In other words, we do not have to explain why 'master' was bad, as
> it does not have to be bad for everybody to be replaced.

This expresses what I was trying to get at with my comments much more clearly than I managed - Thank you

> 
> But you need to defend that the new word you picked is something
> everybody is happy with.  That is much harder ;-).

Indeed, though I am more optimistic about that having seen a couple of people have indicated that they don't mind too much what we choose so long as it unlikely to cause future problems.

Best Wishes

Phillip