On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 01:12:02PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Taylor Blau <me@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > I think that you could do this without treating 'master' as specially by > > making 'merge.suppressDest' contain the value of 'init.defaultBranch' > > (unless set otherwise). > > My understanding is that much more instances of repositories come to > exist by cloning than running "git init". Hence, the value you set > to the init.defaultBranch has no relevance to the name of the > primary branch in majority of your repositories, whose primary > branch is what their origin has designated before/when you cloned. > > And the latter, "what is the primary branch name for this particular > repository?", is what we want to ask here. The answer to "what is > the first branch name for new repository I will create?" is not a > good proxy for that. Aha, makes sense. Thanks for clarifying. > Thanks. Thanks, Taylor
