Set the default branch for newly-created repositories

Re:Set the default branch for newly-created repositories by lxe on Thursday August 27, 2020 @12:15AM (#24290067)

Why not 'trunk'? It's a tree after all... there are 'branches'... SVN got it right.

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Re:Set the default branch for newly-created repositories by gkoberger on Thursday August 27, 2020 @12:29AM (#24290111)

Aside from the fact that `main` is pretty straightforward for people new to git, one huge benefit is that autocorrect for `ma` still works.

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Re:Set the default branch for newly-created repositories by derivagral on Thursday August 27, 2020 @12:35AM (#24290143)

I've been in software since I was a teen, and this comment finally made me realize what "trunk" was actually supposed to mean before Git took over.

https://xkcd.com/1053/

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Re:Set the default branch for newly-created repositories by skocznymroczny on Thursday August 27, 2020 @06:21AM (#24292077)

As a non-native English speaker I never connected SVN's trunk with the concept of a tree from which branches grow. I mean, I knew of this meaning of the word trunk but I never thought of it in this context. I was more familiar with the other meanings, the long body part on the elephant and the storage compartment on a car.

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Re:Set the default branch for newly-created repositories by kjeetgill on Thursday August 27, 2020 @09:54AM (#24293705)

For some reason I'd associated it with trunk, a word for the human torso.

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Re:Set the default branch for newly-created repositories by wfriesen on Thursday August 27, 2020 @03:14AM (#24290895)

My guess is because "Main" was used in Microsoft's TFS.

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Re:Set the default branch for newly-created repositories by benatkin on Thursday August 27, 2020 @01:02AM (#24290274)

It's just like some politicians - destroying anything the predecessor created, no matter how good it is.

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