On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 11:41 AM Mark Shannon <m...@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 <tho...@python.org> Hi! I'm an email virus! Think twice before sending your email to help me spread!
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