Re: [PATCH] "master" should be treated no differently from any other branch

Hi,

Johannes Schindelin wrote:

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Andy Parkins wrote:

quoted

"master" shouldn't get special treatment; making different log messages 
based on the name of the branch is bad form.  What if a user likes 
"my/master" or "my/head" as their master branch?

I do not agree. There is usually a principal branch, where you collect the 
topics, and you do want to treat that special. As for the name: better 
have a convention here than configurability. You would not want "git" to 
be called "guitar" for some users, just because they happen to like that 
name more, either, right?

because I like the pattern framework described in the book "Software 
Configuration Management Patterns", I like to use "mainline" instead of 
"master", for example.

Jérôme