On Sun, Sep 08, 2024 at 11:35:36PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > David Rowley <dgrowle...@gmail.com> writes: >> I think HEAD is commonly misused to mean master instead of the latest >> commit of the current branch. I see the buildfarm even does that. >> Thanks for getting that right in your blog post. > > IIRC, HEAD *was* the technically correct term back when we were > using CVS. Old habits die hard.
Even if it's a new habit from a new technology. I began getting involved with upstream the year when the moved from CVS to git happened, and just inherited this habit from everybody else ;) -- Michael
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