Re: [PATCH] clone: in protocol v2, use remote's default branch

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 15, 2020, 03:22 UTC
Message-ID: <5fd82bfe20d9c_d7c48208da@natae.notmuch>
In-Reply-To: <878s9zx2ul.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

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> To borrow from Felipe Contreras's reply in the side-thread "I expect the
> branch name to be chosen by the person who created that repository".
> 
> I suppose this comes down to a mental model of what it means to have
> "created a repository". When I click "create repo" on those popular
> hosting sites (e.g. github & gitlab) and clone it I was expecting it to
> just be a shorthand init + a URL in my config (and refspecs...).

Indeed. But then it would be *them* taking away agency from the user (by not allowing the user to choose the name of the branch), not us.

In Spanish we have a saying: "don't give extra change", which is similar to the lawyery advice: "don't volunteer [information]".

Let's not volunteer user complaints. Let GitHub take some of those.

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Felipe Contreras