Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > To borrow from Felipe Contreras's reply in the side-thread "I expect the > branch name to be chosen by the person who created that repository". > > I suppose this comes down to a mental model of what it means to have > "created a repository". When I click "create repo" on those popular > hosting sites (e.g. github & gitlab) and clone it I was expecting it to > just be a shorthand init + a URL in my config (and refspecs...). Indeed. But then it would be *them* taking away agency from the user (by not allowing the user to choose the name of the branch), not us. In Spanish we have a saying: "don't give extra change", which is similar to the lawyery advice: "don't volunteer [information]". Let's not volunteer user complaints. Let GitHub take some of those. -- Felipe Contreras
