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Main* branch.
Don't want to sound racist
I'll never understand why we didn't just go back to saying "trunk".
"Trunk" is nice because it fits with "branch" in the tree metaphor, but "main" does have fewer letters.
Yep, the metaphor would be good if git was a tree but kt isn't. It's very rare to have a real tree branch merge back into the trunk. Would it even still be called a branch after merging?
Not rare, but uncommon. Not sure if there's a Lemmy equivalent but r/treessuckingonthings shows trunks absorbing all sorts of things including branches
Yes, this is why I chose not to say that it was impossible.
Perhaps the mathematical definition of a tree is wrong in stating there should be not loops, or should change to another metaphor.
Hairs can split but never merges back again. Perhaps a split hair instead of a branch? We still trim or prune the ~~leaves~~ ends. What do you call the "trunk" of a hair?
Edit: formatting
If it's not a tree, why call it a branch? Maybe branch doesn't make any sense either. Maybe none of this makes any sense! Oh my God, what are we even doing here?!?! Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!
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