On Wed, Aug 05, 2020 at 09:22:47AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > >> Essentially, because both main and master have similar names, tab > >> completion requires remembering to type one additional character than > >> I am used to. > > > > Heh, I didn't think anybody considered that implication so far; the fact > > that they were similar names has generally been considered a positive. I > > agree it would be annoying. > > FWIW, I've been saying that 'maint' will become harder to type all > along ever since I heard 'main'. > > https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqtuz9tq30.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ True, but I thought that was just a reason against "main" in git.git itself. Most repos don't have "maint" (and we already conflicted on "ma" with the existing name :) though I agree that having one as a prefix of the other makes completion doubly painful). The interesting bit here is that the old name probably _isn't_ going away immediately, so this would affect everybody. -Peff
