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Many projects use "head" to refer to their development branch. That's equally as non-meaningful, yet nobody complains about that.
by vertex-four 12y ago
Many projects use "head" to refer to their development branch. That's equally as non-meaningful, yet nobody complains about that.
- bdowling 12y ago"Head" is very commonly used because it is from the language of revision control systems. CVS, Subversion, Perforce, Git, Mercurial, and probably others all refer to the latest checkin as the "head". It has a specific meaning to a much larger group of people than just FreeBSD users.