Re: [PATCH] "master" should be treated no differently from any other branch
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Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
- Date
- Dec 14, 2006, 18:22 UTC
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- <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612141321110.18171@xanadu.home>
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- <4581721B.4050102@xs4all.nl>
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
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> 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.
I also agree to disagree. "master" is maybe the default branch, but it is not so special to deserve a different message than any other branch.