origin/trunk branch - who added it?

Jason Merrill jason@redhat.com
Fri Apr 23 19:52:28 GMT 2021


On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 5:13 AM Martin Liška <mliska@suse.cz> wrote:
>
> Few weeks ago, I noticed we have a new remote branch that follows origin/master:
> https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/trunk
>
> Do we know who added it? And what was the motivation?

I did; I've always preferred that name (for metaphorical consistency
with 'branch'), and there's been a wider move away from 'master' in
git repositories.  I figured we could support both easily enough, but
the hooks still need updating to treat 'trunk' the same way they treat
'master'.

Jason



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