From: Jerome Lovy Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 16:20:04 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] "master" should be treated no differently from any other branch Message-ID: <458179B4.7020408@brefemail.com> In-Reply-To: Hi, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > 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? because I like the pattern framework described in the book "Software Configuration Management Patterns", I like to use "mainline" instead of "master", for example. Jérôme