@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 13 days agoWhich git branch are you on?locklemmy.cafeimagemessage-square145fedilinkarrow-up1407
arrow-up1407imageWhich git branch are you on?locklemmy.cafe@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 13 days agomessage-square145fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink12•12 days agoBecause it is a historically settled down terminology that everyone understands and there is no adequate reason to change it.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink10•12 days ago everyone understands no, new people learn git every day. ‘main’ is much clearer. It’s maybe not the same readability gain as ‘blocklist/allowlist’ over ‘blacklist/whitelist’, but it’s still there.
minus-squareDerpgonlinkfedilink25•edit-212 days agoWhy not change “walkie talkie” to “radio phone”? It is so much cleaner. Because change for the sake of change always brings more work than what it saves. Why change something that works and everyone recognizes it? Of course, if this debate was there when the standard was created…
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•12 days agowe should make the empty string the name for the default branch
Why master? main is much clearer
Because it is a historically settled down terminology that everyone understands and there is no adequate reason to change it.
no, new people learn git every day.
‘main’ is much clearer. It’s maybe not the same readability gain as ‘blocklist/allowlist’ over ‘blacklist/whitelist’, but it’s still there.
Why not change “walkie talkie” to “radio phone”? It is so much cleaner.
Because change for the sake of change always brings more work than what it saves.
Why change something that works and everyone recognizes it? Of course, if this debate was there when the standard was created…
Why main? m is much clearer
we should make the empty string the name for the default branch