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

- From: Jerome Lovy \<hidden\>
- Date: 2016-08-11 19:32:08 
- List: git
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2016/08/7688783
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2016/08/7688853/t.md

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Hi,

Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Andy Parkins wrote:
>
>> "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
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