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Re: Jargon and acronyms on this mailing list

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

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From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>, Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2024-09-09T03:42:00Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Sun, Sep 08, 2024 at 11:35:36PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> 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.

Even if it's a new habit from a new technology.  I began getting
involved with upstream the year when the moved from CVS to git
happened, and just inherited this habit from everybody else ;)
--
Michael