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

- From: Johannes Schindelin \<hidden\>
- Date: 2016-08-11 19:38:22 
- List: git
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2016/08/7689122
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2016/08/7688853/t.md

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Hi,

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Andy Parkins wrote:

> Making "master" special rather than simply a default means git is 
> dictating policy.  It isn't git's place to decide what my branches are 
> called, especially as it is git itself that lets me choose freely to 
> begin with.

Fine. I don't give a flying fly. And if -- by making this and related 
changes -- new users find it even harder to start with Git, I will ignore 
any complaints. I mean, this is yet something new in an almost-everyday 
message that the user has to get used to.

Ciao,
Dscho
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