Highlights from Git 2.28

Re:Highlights from Git 2.28 by WorldMaker on Monday July 27, 2020 @05:31PM (#23969631)

I've been debating "mast" as it sort of evokes "trunk" in an amusing seafaring sort of way, and partly for the same reason a lot people like "main" because their muscle memory is "ma<TAB>". For several reasons my muscle memory at this point is "mast<TAB>", so "mast" is even a slight improvement over my muscle memory.

But I'm not sure I'd get that much interest from other people to use "mast", it might just be something in my own projects.

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Re:Highlights from Git 2.28 by WorldMaker on Monday July 27, 2020 @06:10PM (#23970009)

I've also been debating just calling it "default" since we always refer to it as the default branch anyway.

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Re:Highlights from Git 2.28 by WorldMaker on Monday July 27, 2020 @06:22PM (#23970112)

Useful to know: the linked GitLab documentation points out several flaws with "default" as the name for a branch, in particular the cognitive association with financial default (a negative circumstance), which would make internationalization hard and while not as terrible an association and history as "master" still a bad association that now I've thought about it I cannot stop thinking about.

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