Subject: Re: Avoiding 'master' nomenclature

From: Oleg <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2020 11:19:25 +0300

On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 08:57:21PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 11:17:43AM +0300, [email-masked] wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 01:38:56PM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> > > The commit message describes its intent
> > >   commit 489947cee5095b168cbac111ff7bd1eadbbd90dd
> > >   Author: Johannes Schindelin <[email-masked]>
> > >   Date:   Tue Jun 23 22:33:23 2020 +0000
> > > 
> > >       fmt-merge-msg: stop treating `master` specially
> > > 
> > >       In the context of many projects renaming their primary branch names away
> > >       from `master`, Git wants to stop treating the `master` branch specially.
> > 
> > Wow. Jonathan, you are a good student of Goebbels! "many projects" :-D.
> > You lie. These are few but very noisy projects. Don't kid youself.
> 
>   - the text you are responding to isn't even Jonathan's; it was a
>     quoted commit message to give context.

Yes. It's my mistake. Sorry.

>   - if you really do want re-open the argument about whether projects
>     are interested in changing branch names, it might help to provide
>     some actual data. Most of the data-less points (on both sides) have
>     already been made in past discussions.

Most of the actual data have already been made, but polytics won out over
common sense.

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Олег Неманов (Oleg Nemanov)