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Re: Avoiding 'master' nomenclature

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jul 29, 2020, 20:40 UTC
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
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> Even if you don't want to treat "master" specially, there's two actual
> reasons to do so:
>
>  (a) the technical one: it's the old default one in a lot of existing
> repositories, so if there is no defaultBranchName, it effectively
> _was_ that
>
>  (b) the non-technical one: if the aim is to get rid of "master"
> terminology, THAT IS EXACTLY what the code did before it was removed.
>
> So really. Both from a technical _and_ a terminology angle, that
> commit was just wrong.

Your "if the aim is" is curious---the change is not particularly aimed for that. As far as I understand it, it was also to retire the "one single thing is special among others" mentality (which by the way I find somewhat offending).

The original did two things wrong, i.e. treated one thing specially, and designated 'master' which has been declared a dirty word as that special thing. Killing these two wrongs with one stone does not feel so stupid.

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  1. Linus TorvaldsJul 29, 2020
  2. Junio C HamanoJul 29, 2020
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  4. Jonathan NiederJul 29, 2020
  5. Linus TorvaldsJul 29, 2020
  6. Linus TorvaldsJul 29, 2020
  7. lego_12239@rambler.ruJul 30, 2020
  8. Jeff KingJul 31, 2020
  9. OlegJul 31, 2020
  10. Linus TorvaldsJul 29, 2020
  11. Jeff KingJul 29, 2020
  12. Linus TorvaldsJul 29, 2020
  13. Jeff KingJul 30, 2020
  14. Linus TorvaldsJul 30, 2020
  15. Jeff KingJul 30, 2020
  16. Linus TorvaldsJul 30, 2020
  17. Jeff KingJul 31, 2020
  18. Junio C HamanoJul 29, 2020
  19. Junio C HamanoJul 29, 2020
  20. Jeff KingJul 30, 2020
  21. Linus TorvaldsJul 30, 2020
  22. Michal SuchánekJul 30, 2020
  23. Jeff KingJul 30, 2020
  24. Junio C HamanoJul 30, 2020
  25. 0/2 fmt-merge-msg: selectively suppress "into <branch>"Junio C Hamano, Jul 30, 2020
  26. 2/2 fmt-merge-msg: allow merge destination to be omitted againJunio C Hamano, Jul 30, 2020
  27. 1/2 Revert "fmt-merge-msg: stop treating `master` specially"Junio C Hamano, Jul 30, 2020
  28. Eric SunshineJul 30, 2020
  29. Junio C HamanoJul 30, 2020
  30. Jeff KingJul 31, 2020
  31. Junio C HamanoJul 31, 2020
  32. Jeff KingJul 31, 2020
  33. Taylor BlauJul 31, 2020
  34. Junio C HamanoJul 31, 2020
  35. Taylor BlauJul 31, 2020
  36. Michal SuchánekAug 1, 2020
  37. Johannes SchindelinAug 10, 2020
  38. Junio C HamanoAug 10, 2020
  39. Johannes SchindelinAug 11, 2020
  40. Junio C HamanoAug 12, 2020
  41. Junio C HamanoJul 29, 2020
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