On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 11:58 AM Daniel Playfair Cal <daniel.playfair....@gmail.com> wrote: > > most tutorials do assume that the default branch is called master.
For good reasons: It's used almost universally, so adding an additional vague "figure out how the main branch is called" step just adds needless complications. > That said, if you think about this in terms of a smaller step in a wider > change outside of GNOME away from "master", it has the potential to somewhat > improve the learning curve. I somewhat agree, but the "wider change outside of GNOME away from master" appears rather hypothetical? I'm not aware any broader initiative to change that convention. If there is, then great, we should go with the flow. But if the idea is that we change the name and everyone else will just follow suite, well ... standards (https://xkcd.com/927/) :-) But yes, my concerns about the "master" term are not least about clarity. Besides "master tape" (which is fairly obscure itself), I mostly associate "master" with skill ("masterpiece", "masters degree", "Australian Masters" etc.), and that doesn't help with grasping the meaning of the "master branch" one bit. If only https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171940 was fixed, we could lobby Linus for a better default ... Cheers, Florian _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list