On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 09:30:54AM -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote: > Let's leave emotionally charged rhetoric and discuss this like > reasonable human beings. If we were all reasonable human beings, then this "useful" feature would wait in order until other really useful things to be done. > Here are facts: > 2. Branch naming is entirely the choice of individual repository > maintainers. Some prefer not to have a "master" branch, and it's not Some :-)? This "some" are very few people/projects and no one of them have serious reasons to do it(it pampering). > simply because of "political correctness" reasons as everyone > insists: You are simply lie, because i don't think that you don't understand that this statement is wrong. If so, why this "useful" feature didn't appear earlier? So many people/projects suffer without it all time until today, isn't it? > - they may prefer to have "stable" and "development" branches And what do stop from doing this now? Existent master branch? > - they may want to use localized names for all their naming > conventions (using Cyrillic, Hanzi, Kana, whatever) No. They wann't. Tell you as cyrillic user, some conventions exist that branches and tags should be in ASCII(no one with a sane mind want to not to do so). And if you want to make a public repo and collaborate with others you will use ASCII in any case. Otherwise nobody understand you. > - they may be goofing off (there's a furry-related repository on > GitHub with the main branch called "yiffed") Hm... Is this a technical reason? So, i've read some fantasies and nothing that looks like technical reasons for such changes. > 3. In your example, "millions and billions" of scripts are already wrong > if they assume that there is always a "master" branch. However, it May be they assume this, because about 15 years master branch was *always* here, didn't think about it :-D? And nobody told that somebody will come and break it somewhen. > 4. In Git, local branch names do not need to map to remote branch names. > Your local branch "upstream" can track remote branch "development". > If the remote branch gets renamed, you simply update your > configuration and continue without change. We have so little problems and difficulties, that yet another one willn't make our life more hard. -- Олег Неманов (Oleg Nemanov)
