From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2020 18:08:01 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tests: do not use "slave branch" nomenclature
Message-ID: <xmqqwo44nt6m.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20200618164554.GA616157@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 06:38:43PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>
>> From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
>> 
>> Git does not have slave branches and has never had.  Independent
>> of any future change to the naming of branches, remove the sole
>> appearance of the term.
>
> I think this is a sensible change, though note that something simpler
> was proposed recently:
>
>   https://lore.kernel.org/git/20200610165441.iktvzuwz44sbytfg@chatter.i7.local/
>
> and the review suggested using a name that is even more meaningful to
> the test case (so we not just remove the unwanted names, but make the
> test easier to follow).

Thanks for spotting that both versions share the same issue.  We'd
just need a single one that is fixed up ;-).