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Git 3.0 will use main as the default branch (thoughtbot.com)

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[–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

Should have followed Subversion so we'd have "trunk" with the branches coming off it.

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[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The trunk metaphor doesn’t work very well in Git, because branches aren’t long-lived containers of sequential commits the way they are in SVN. There is no “root” commit that is guaranteed to have a consistent relationship with main, because branches are just names attached to a commit and can be reassigned at will.

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