From: Don Goodman-Wilson <don@goodman-wilson.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2020 11:59:38 GMT
Subject: Re: Rename offensive terminology (master)
Message-ID: <CAGA3LAfpoXDQryOPGg3g-4brpUcSAhL_2VOw8oy6D2ffp64hag@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20200611115215.GQ21462@kitsune.suse.cz>

On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 1:52 PM Michal Suchánek <msuchanek@suse.de> wrote:
> Indeed, the flexibility to choose the name of the default branch can be
> helpful for projects with specific naming, especially non-english
> speaking projects.
>
> To that end I would suggest adding -b argument to git init to be able to
> choose the default branch name per project. This should select the
> initial branch name and also write the it as the default branch name in
> the repo configuration (if git continues to treat the default branch
> specially).
>
> This can be used in documentation to use the new name immediately
> without breaking existing workflows that rely on the 'master' branch.

I _really_ like this idea (and your reasoning). Seconded.

Don Goodman-Wilson