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Re: Jargon and acronyms on this mailing list

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2024-09-09T03:35:36Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com> writes:
> I think HEAD is commonly misused to mean master instead of the latest
> commit of the current branch. I see the buildfarm even does that.
> Thanks for getting that right in your blog post.

IIRC, HEAD *was* the technically correct term back when we were
using CVS.  Old habits die hard.

			regards, tom lane