Re: Rename offensive terminology (master)

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jun 9, 2020, 19:02 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq5zc0hxk6.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <448e4f49-d1f8-94df-4fc7-64cd024e668f@kdbg.org>

Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> writes:

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> Am 09.06.20 um 18:02 schrieb Junio C Hamano:
>> so it might be the matter of teaching "git
>> init" (it uses 'master' by default) and "git clone" (it tries to use
>> the name of the branch the HEAD at origin points at,...
>
> Don't forget the special treatment of "master" in fmt-merge-msg.c that
> skips the " into 'foo'" part of  "Merge branch 'bar'".

Yup, that certainly needs to be taken into consideration in this topic. There may be more that we are forgetting.

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