Re: Consensus on a new default branch name

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On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 01:44:49PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> Makes perfect sense to me. No reasonable person can argue against
> giving individual repository owners the ability to *easily* call their
> "primary" branch anything they want.

This is great. But

> This flame war plus the publicity it generated lets everybody know that
> someday, whether in 1 month or 5 years, the default will be something
> other than "master", so they'll start changing their software and
> scripts to accommodate a variable instead of a hardcode, so when the
> change happens, there will be minimal software disruption and minimal
> hurt feelings.

this is not. Damn. Did you see what people say here? Why are you even
forcing people to do this? Just stay "master" as a default and everyone
will be happy. 

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Олег Неманов (Oleg Nemanov)



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