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Re: Avoiding 'master' nomenclature

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jul 29, 2020, 20:04 UTC
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
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> It turns out that commit 489947cee5 ("fmt-merge-msg: stop treating
> `master` specially") has the exact opposite effect of what the
> intention must have been.
>
> It may remove "master" from git, but what it does is then make it much
> more visible everywhere else.
>
> In fact, it doesn't even remove "master" from git itself. It just adds
> more of it into the test suite etc.
>
> So that commit is doubly stupid. If the intent was to try to avoid
> "master" as a word, it failed on every single possible level.

The intent was to stop treating 'master' as some kind of 'special' word, since it is no longer special after init.defaultBranchName was invented.

It could have been coded to start treating the word that is set to init.defaultBranchName as a new 'special' word, but the chosen design is to say there is no special branch name anywhere. One reason behind that design is because the concept of "one thing being special among all others" does not necessarily hold in all projects anyway.

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  13. Jeff KingJul 30, 2020
  14. Linus TorvaldsJul 30, 2020
  15. Jeff KingJul 30, 2020
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  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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