Re: [PATCH 00/28] Use main as default branch name

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Nov 18, 2020, 00:10 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqmtzf4j96.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAMP44s3750bSdmw4A=KU=UgffOPiQwB8ECk9YRPe8mh50Og8Ow@mail.gmail.com>

Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:

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> If we already know "origin/HEAD" is very likely pointing to the
> integration branch, then why do we need to know what that branch is
> called in that particular project?
>
> Just refer to that branch as "origin/@", or just "origin".

"git merge origin" turns into "git merge origin/HEAD", I think, and we had it for quite some time.

But repositories may not even have any origin to begin with. The one I am typing this message in certainly does not. And we need some fallback default when origin/HEAD cannot be used anyway, and that is where the convention comes in again. You cannot escape from it, and ...

> That would work for projects that follow the convention, and those who
> don't. Why does the tool need to care?

... certainly it would not work for me.