There's still a responsibility for ~57 years worth of human life that doesn't actually need to be put at risk. Someone forgetting how to rebase a branch in some given way and then having to search is their own responsibility. On the other hand, this is a decision made on their behalf, without their consent, ... on everyone's behalf. If you're not going to change the default without user input, are you going to ask the user for a default branch name? Figure out the math and annoyance on that. On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 6:44 PM Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email> wrote: > > On 19/11/2020 00:30, Peter Hadlaw wrote: > > That leaves us with 10 million users of git that are either unaware or > > are not on board. Let's say it takes 3 minutes for a user to search on > > the web why exactly they can't > > navigate to their "master" branch. That's 30 million minutes of time > > wasted, or about 57 man-YEARs of time wasted.... for what? > That's (3 mins) probably about the same amount of time as most users > waste on stack overflow for Git questions, or the old 'RTFM', for their > problems in a typical week anyway. > > 3 mins out of a 35 hr week, over a 44 week x 25 year life is 1.3 ppm, > unless you work too hard and too long, where it's an even lower ppm. > > There are mechanism in this series for setting the default branch name. > > -- > Philip > -- Peter
