From: Han-Wen Nienhuys Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 15:47:39 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] "master" should be treated no differently from any other branch Message-ID: <4581721B.4050102@xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: Johannes Schindelin escreveu: > Hi, > > On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Andy Parkins wrote: > >> "master" shouldn't get special treatment; making different log messages >> based on the name of the branch is bad form. What if a user likes >> "my/master" or "my/head" as their master branch? > > I do not agree. There is usually a principal branch, where you collect the > topics, and you do want to treat that special. As for the name: better > have a convention here than configurability. You would not want "git" to > be called "guitar" for some users, just because they happen to like that > name more, either, right? Disagree: I have two principal branches, master and stable/2.10. I don't see why the latter should get different commit messages. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - hanwen@xs4all.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen