Re: [PATCH v4 4/4] init: provide useful advice about init.defaultBranch
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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- Dec 11, 2020, 01:22 UTC
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Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:
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> On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 3:58 PM Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget > <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> wrote: > >> +static const char default_branch_name_advice[] = N_( >> +"Using '%s' as the name for the initial branch. This default branch name\n" >> +"is subject to change. To configure the initial branch name to use in all\n" >> +"of your new repositories, which will suppress this warning, call:\n" >> +"\n" >> +"\tgit config --global init.defaultBranch <name>\n" >> +"\n" >> +"Common names are 'main', 'trunk' and 'development'. The initial branch\n" > > This is disingenuous; the most common name is "master"... by far. In a > couple years this might change, but not right now. > > If you don't want to mention "master", then don't mention "common > names" that are not really the most common names.
Names commonly chosen by those who want to move away from 'master' are...