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No, I'm not a fan of it. It's been master since forever and it's a perfectly good term, fits regular English convention of "master branch" too.

> Personally, I use diff configs depending on oss vs personal vs work. So I combine mine with “[includeIf gitdir:~/oss…]” …

I'd stuff such things into the local repos' .git/config files instead of the global. It's rare that I do it, but sometimes I do work with projects with differing conventions.



I liked it more once I realized it was fewer characters to type.


Typing 'ma<Tab>' is the same in both cases. I don't like the change because the reason behind the change is political. Give an inch take a mile etc, it's getting out of hand. But I don't care enough to stand out.




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