3 messages, 3 authors, 2017-06-06 · open the first message on its own page
From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2017-06-06 01:00:34
Stefan Beller [off-list ref] writes:
On the subject: maybe we want to rename initial commit to root commit? (evil-me also thinks we could name it "parent-less commit", to reinforce what the lovely git man page generator tries to point at.)
Is "initial" harder to understand than "root" or "parent-less"?
From: brian m. carlson <hidden>
Date: 2017-06-06 01:12:02
On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 10:00:12AM +0900, Junio C Hamano wrote:
Stefan Beller [off-list ref] writes:quoted
On the subject: maybe we want to rename initial commit to root commit? (evil-me also thinks we could name it "parent-less commit", to reinforce what the lovely git man page generator tries to point at.)Is "initial" harder to understand than "root" or "parent-less"?
I personally think that "Initial commit" is very straightforward. If we get more inquiries about it, we could consider changing it, but seeing as this is the first question I've ever seen about it, I think most people understand it pretty well. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US https://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: https://keybase.io/bk2204
From: Samuel Lijin <hidden>
Date: 2017-06-06 01:40:38
On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 9:11 PM, brian m. carlson [off-list ref] wrote:
On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 10:00:12AM +0900, Junio C Hamano wrote:quoted
Stefan Beller [off-list ref] writes:quoted
On the subject: maybe we want to rename initial commit to root commit? (evil-me also thinks we could name it "parent-less commit", to reinforce what the lovely git man page generator tries to point at.)Is "initial" harder to understand than "root" or "parent-less"?I personally think that "Initial commit" is very straightforward. If we get more inquiries about it, we could consider changing it, but seeing as this is the first question I've ever seen about it, I think most people understand it pretty well.
For what it's worth, I've never quite understood the "Initial commit" message, because the repository is in a state where there are no commits yet, not when HEAD is pointing to a root commit.