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Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2020 19:34:14 +0200
From: Wolf <wolf@wolfsden.cz>
To: Ariadne Conill <ariadne@dereferenced.org>
Cc: ~alpine/devel@lists.alpinelinux.org
Subject: Re: Renaming master branch in aports.git to edge?
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Hello,

On 2020-06-15 18:34:04 -0600, Ariadne Conill wrote:
> Discussion of the semantics behind the terminology aside, I think it woul=
d be=20
> more transparent if we renamed "master" to "edge."  This would cause the =
edge=20
> repositories to be aligned with an obviously-named branch in aports.git, =
which=20
> seems like it would be helpful in general, verses having a special case f=
or=20
> master =3D=3D edge and release branches being named after their version n=
umbers.

While in comparison to the master->main change, this one would actually
make sense and would reflect the repo naming, at the same time there
are probably lot of scripts and places that assume it's called master.

In my opinion in this case practicality/convention trumps correctness.

W.

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There are only two hard things in Computer Science:
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