Re: [PATCH 8/9] fast-export: respect the possibly-overridden default branch name

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Hi Matt,

On Wed, 10 Jun 2020, Matt Rogers wrote:

> > -        * We also leave "master" as a special case, since it does not reveal
> > -        * anything interesting.
> > +        * We also leave the default branch name as a special case, since it
> > +        * does not reveal anything interesting.
> >          */
> I feel this is a weird thing to do, since you're trying to anonymize the branch
> name,and now the default branch is identifiable with your config file.  For
> example, if the default branch contains the name of my project/repo then this
> sounds like a recipe for accidentally sharing it. I feel a better
> alternative would
> be to exclude nothing from the anonymization or the proposed default default
> branch name

I don't think that the name of the main branch should be subject to
anonymizing, whether it be `master` or anything else.

Ciao,
Dscho



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