On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 6:23 AM Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email> wrote: > > On 11/06/2020 13:52, Derrick Stolee wrote: > > On 6/11/2020 7:59 AM, Don Goodman-Wilson wrote: > >> On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 1:52 PM Michal Suchánek <msuchanek@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> Indeed, the flexibility to choose the name of the default branch can be > >>> helpful for projects with specific naming, especially non-english > >>> speaking projects. > >>> > >>> To that end I would suggest adding -b argument to git init to be able to > >>> choose the default branch name per project. This should select the > >>> initial branch name and also write the it as the default branch name in > >>> the repo configuration (if git continues to treat the default branch > >>> specially). > >>> > >>> This can be used in documentation to use the new name immediately > >>> without breaking existing workflows that rely on the 'master' branch. > >> I _really_ like this idea (and your reasoning). Seconded. > > Yes, adding a -b|--branch option would be an excellent addition to > > the config option. > > > > > Is their also an option to also add an option to `git clone` to (re)set > the default branch name offered by the upstream to that provided? > > Alternatively provide a `--no-checkout` option for the clone so that > either no actual checkout is performed, or maybe that a detached head > checkout is performed so that users can name their default branch > appropriately. Good news: git clone already has a `--no-checkout` option (with `-n` being the short option form for it).
