Re:“RNG broken for last 4 months”
by vertex-four on Wednesday February 18, 2015 @05:07AM
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Many projects use "head" to refer to their development branch. That's equally as non-meaningful, yet nobody complains about that.
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"Head" is very commonly used because it is from the language of revision control systems. CVS, Subversion, Perforce, Git, Mercurial, and probably others all refer to the latest checkin as the "head". It has a specific meaning to a much larger group of people than just FreeBSD users.