New name for the development branch [was Steering Council update for February]
Hi, Why choose "main" as a replacement for "master"? It's the development branch, shouldn't we call it "development" or "dev"? We give release branches meaningful names, so why give the development branch the not-so-meaningful name "main". From a user's perspective the "main" branch is whatever their version of Python is built from. Cheers, Mark.
I think https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/GDAUZKYB... and https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/RE3V6Y7C... already explained the reasons in sufficient detail -- that "main" is a politically correct replacement for "master" and is supposed to take over as the default branch name in Git. I'm against using a nonstandard default branch name because I have firsthand experience with one (in the Multibuild project) and it was really confusing. On 10.03.2021 13:36, Mark Shannon wrote:
Hi,
Why choose "main" as a replacement for "master"? It's the development branch, shouldn't we call it "development" or "dev"?
We give release branches meaningful names, so why give the development branch the not-so-meaningful name "main". From a user's perspective the "main" branch is whatever their version of Python is built from.
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-- Regards, Ivan
Indeed, if we change the name of the default branch, it should be something standard, so "main". Projects with non-standard branch names are pointlessly annoying to navigate. Regards Antoine. On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 13:47:11 +0300 Ivan Pozdeev via Python-Dev <python-dev@python.org> wrote:
I think https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/GDAUZKYB... and https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/RE3V6Y7C... already explained the reasons in sufficient detail -- that "main" is a politically correct replacement for "master" and is supposed to take over as the default branch name in Git.
I'm against using a nonstandard default branch name because I have firsthand experience with one (in the Multibuild project) and it was really confusing.
On 10.03.2021 13:36, Mark Shannon wrote:
Hi,
Why choose "main" as a replacement for "master"? It's the development branch, shouldn't we call it "development" or "dev"?
We give release branches meaningful names, so why give the development branch the not-so-meaningful name "main". From a user's perspective the "main" branch is whatever their version of Python is built from.
Cheers, Mark. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-leave@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/HRHPZSNZ... Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 11:41 AM Mark Shannon <mark@hotpy.org> wrote:
Hi,
Why choose "main" as a replacement for "master"? It's the development branch, shouldn't we call it "development" or "dev"?
We give release branches meaningful names, so why give the development branch the not-so-meaningful name "main". From a user's perspective the "main" branch is whatever their version of Python is built from.
We're not changing the name because of semantic inaccuracies, and at this point we can't even claim to do it because it's the right thing. We're just going with the flow here. There is more value in using the conventional names, and the convention for the replacement of 'master' is clearly 'main'. -- Thomas Wouters <thomas@python.org> Hi! I'm an email virus! Think twice before sending your email to help me spread!
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