Re: Rename offensive terminology (master)
- From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Date
- Jun 14, 2020, 21:39 UTC
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- <20200614211500.GA22505@dcvr>
Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> writes:
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> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote: >> It of course opens a different can of worms ;-) Even though we can >> please master-slave-haters by moving away from the particular word >> 'master', those who cannot stand the very idea of one thing being >> special among others will not be satisfied (and we shouldn't even >> try to please them, IMO). > > As somebody who does not like the idea of things being special, > I'm considering renaming "master" of the few projects I maintain > to "unofficial". It fits my anti-centralization and > anti-authoritarian mind, at least :>
We probably can teach "fmt-merge-msg" (which is what helps "git merge" to special case the message for merges into the primary branch) and "fast-export --anonymize" to honor some special value for the configuration variable (core.primaryBranchName???) so that they treat that NO branch is primary/special.
Perhaps an empty string would serve the purpose.