Colin Watson dijo [Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 10:13:31PM +0100]: > I think my ranked preferences are: > > 1. devel (for the sorts of reasons smcv@ gave; also, debian/devel is a > nice allusion to this list) > 2. trunk (historical familiarity from other VCSes) > 3. main or maybe mainline (some tab-completion similarity to master, > though the confusion with components in a Debian context is > unfortunate)
I never really understood the word "trunk" when I used older VCSes... Because, as a non-native English speaker, I always understood "trunk" as the part of the car you store stuff in. The "right" meaning is quite obvious, and it makes much more sense when expressed together with "branches": What in Spanish we call "tronco" (should be a giveaway! How come I never understood it before?), the core part of a tree. Thing is, in English I always used the word "stem" for it. I'm only sending this message to help explain the term to other people who might find it odd. So, a DVCS is a tree, and you can follow the _trunk_ to find its "core" or "main" development direction. There are many _branches_ splitting, first from the trunk itself, then from other branches. So, trunk makes quite a bit of sense for me in that light.