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Why not 'trunk'? It's a tree after all... there are 'branches'... SVN got it right.
by lxe 6y ago
Why not 'trunk'? It's a tree after all... there are 'branches'... SVN got it right.
- gkoberger 6y agoAside from the fact that `main` is pretty straightforward for people new to git, one huge benefit is that autocorrect for `ma` still works.
- derivagral 6y agoI've been in software since I was a teen, and this comment finally made me realize what "trunk" was actually supposed to mean before Git took over. https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/
- skocznymroczny 6y agoAs a non-native English speaker I never connected SVN's trunk with the concept of a tree from which branches grow. I mean, I knew of this meaning of the word trunk but I never thought of it in this context. I was more familiar with the other meanings, the long body part on the elephant and the storage compartment on a car.
- kjeetgill 6y agoFor some reason I'd associated it with trunk, a word for the human torso.
- benatkin 6y agoIt's just like some politicians - destroying anything the predecessor created, no matter how good it is.
- wfriesen 6y agoMy guess is because "Main" was used in Microsoft's TFS.