From patchwork Tue Nov 24 15:07:26 2020 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Johannes Schindelin X-Patchwork-Id: 11929173 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-12.7 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,INCLUDES_CR_TRAILER,INCLUDES_PATCH, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFC96C2D0E4 for ; Tue, 24 Nov 2020 15:08:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 979D8206F9 for ; Tue, 24 Nov 2020 15:08:03 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=gmail.com header.i=@gmail.com header.b="h0OFgS4g" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2389584AbgKXPHf (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Nov 2020 10:07:35 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:49094 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2389084AbgKXPHf (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Nov 2020 10:07:35 -0500 Received: from mail-wr1-x442.google.com (mail-wr1-x442.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4864:20::442]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C41C1C0617A6 for ; Tue, 24 Nov 2020 07:07:34 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail-wr1-x442.google.com with SMTP id r3so4363302wrt.2 for ; Tue, 24 Nov 2020 07:07:34 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=message-id:in-reply-to:references:from:date:subject:fcc :content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:to:cc; bh=hXEJY3v6TTAJzFBcIm7ytbs9WZJxxSVV6Hw7lvdxUkE=; b=h0OFgS4g2N5TM92OTK3f2V8c0znNK18rM+UVtqTa6fbZabN8P+owDmCOnTZxNr4Sy5 TnRLmk9GfqwvNdNWR2yYQbEeXI+8pBK3Mgz0PqVEWTl46y7wnnEkyLb5tC5Zw+frR4W3 WIjfvwCFa8mYna2rfYup2R3zwKkqGoIruKYjtMRgF/kmptB8frYO72bDUbSiz7+M6cQT vkYLOcz9lNh9ZsS0FVt3m7Qte3Z7byB0zvgh3+oRjONly+pkq02vBcxSb1bLhrw37uUY 6LNXJlK3LOchHH3ImXevMmfxIyVu1FJdeyiBLQ2rnn542DSSElJY8Z2FRx0/BBEle1dO H+Pw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:message-id:in-reply-to:references:from:date :subject:fcc:content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:to:cc; bh=hXEJY3v6TTAJzFBcIm7ytbs9WZJxxSVV6Hw7lvdxUkE=; b=QCoXQ8WbFOKrxFxoAi7UCBYw+YKzjLpl0sqh37d3GMjhPXzrMTSYGusRQqE+wue4pp 327GLlUMMOBJOzkuyB9uVc9EPiPwtT5Jj+1Zj4hTcQDn9SaI3T6n9bF6m8BO5yJcNeqw IA0kr3PFIXc3gyKR/xyKX4pvLQAq42vNEuhKE8UNuRIhySp2bDXyWqgdKXlaKqKY+yZf pOAl74xa/kLalHvNFY99dY5GZpoc5Shzaiz88UbTBqSKJfs2BNYxwOr0SOnB2UvvIwDh QkJF5i6gT5OQfImnNNaNDJ5ry0Uk/zydzVPhELzU0ayzH5NKHstLDbcCX8xU4JvZsfzx vJsQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM532M0gjw2eZroycIIf3uBn/ShVZn9UmZO/4SvbQmkniF6jc7fIWU e3MBzMqYuLEz1MAqf+zd8nd7TK2SE1Y= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJysGNmrNhdSX/w8Xmyw/edh7WnJ2znu5Ak3odAeKEJ8xvXfvnBagrQKPxGfqY3ayBPlj4Q8JA== X-Received: by 2002:adf:ead1:: with SMTP id o17mr5953980wrn.396.1606230453349; Tue, 24 Nov 2020 07:07:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([13.74.141.28]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id w11sm5734426wmg.36.2020.11.24.07.07.32 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Tue, 24 Nov 2020 07:07:32 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <483e490349165223a80a0bdf7716c5189560c977.1606230450.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2020 15:07:26 +0000 Subject: [PATCH v3 1/4] init: document `init.defaultBranch` better Fcc: Sent MIME-Version: 1.0 To: git@vger.kernel.org Cc: Johannes Schindelin , Johannes Schindelin , Johannes Schindelin Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org From: Johannes Schindelin From: Johannes Schindelin Our documentation does not mention any future plan to change 'master' to other value. It is a good idea to document this, though. Initial-patch-by: Junio C Hamano Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin --- Documentation/git-init.txt | 11 +++++++---- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-init.txt b/Documentation/git-init.txt index 59ecda6c17..2b399cb73d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-init.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-init.txt @@ -20,8 +20,9 @@ DESCRIPTION This command creates an empty Git repository - basically a `.git` directory with subdirectories for `objects`, `refs/heads`, -`refs/tags`, and template files. An initial `HEAD` file that -references the HEAD of the master branch is also created. +`refs/tags`, and template files. An initial branch without any +commits will be created (see the `--initial-branch` option below +for its name). If the `$GIT_DIR` environment variable is set then it specifies a path to use instead of `./.git` for the base of the repository. @@ -73,8 +74,10 @@ If this is reinitialization, the repository will be moved to the specified path. -b :: --initial-branch=:: -Use the specified name for the initial branch in the newly created repository. -If not specified, fall back to the default name: `master`. +Use the specified name for the initial branch in the newly created +repository. If not specified, fall back to the default name (currently +`master`, but that will be changed in the future; the name can be customized +via the `init.defaultBranch` configuration variable). --shared[=(false|true|umask|group|all|world|everybody|0xxx)]::