Question regarding dist-git aesthetics with branches

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Tue Jul 20 22:07:12 UTC 2010


On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 09:03 -0400, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 03:09:50PM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > 
> > Seriously?  Nobody has an opinion here?  Or will this just be another
> > case of "ZOMG WHY DID YOU DO THIS STUPID THING" as soon as it rolls out...
> > 
> I'm not around enough right now to be able to test anything :-(.
> 
> I also don't really understand the choices you're presenting since they're
> based on git conventions that I don't know.  master is just a convention in
> git?  HEAD is treated specially but doesn't exist normally in a repository?
> 
> I think the only way to do this is to implement one thing and then be
> willing to either change that (or let someone else contribute work to change
> it) once people use it and tell you "ZOMG WHY [...]".

Definitely this is where I stand. It's too new and different for me to
have a reliable mental map of it to know what to think.
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