On 2020-08-30 at 10:02, Simon McVittie wrote: > Rationale: it seems very confusing if a branch with "latest" in its > name does not contain the newest available version :-) > > (debian/master didn't have that problem because it's named by > analogy to the "master" branch used in upstream git repositories, > which doesn't really have a fixed meaning anyway.)
This would be the reason why I would have argued against choosing 'latest' for the name. If a replacement for 'master' is needed, the best candidate I've encountered or come up with yet is generally 'primary'. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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