Hi Philip,
On Wed, 18 Nov 2020, Philip Oakley wrote:
> An alternative in the other direction is to go with the 'not currently
> on any branch' (detached at nowhere) but then require users to
> deliberately create their first branch with their chosen name. This
> moves the 'backward incompatibility' to a different place, which may be
> easier to manage.
It might be easier to manage for _us_, the Git developers. But every user
who initializes a repository and wants to push now needs to take the extra
step to give their unnamed branch ("detached HEAD" is _still_ confusing
new users!!!) a name.
That would be much more disruptive than choosing a "rather dull and
boring" name instead of a rather racially-charged one.
And we promised to try to minimize the disruption to Git users.
Ciao,
Dscho
