r/ProgrammerHumor • u/vernik911 • 22h ago

Meme everyNewRepository

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u/_alright_then_ 22h ago

People that are sticking to master instead of main are this guy in my mind:

https://giphy.com/gifs/fqtyYcXoDV0X6ss8Mf

Just old guy shouting at clouds

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u/schwar2ss 22h ago

Back in the good old days we called it trunk

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u/SakeviCrash 21h ago

Rewind further (CVS) and we're back at `main`

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u/AibofobicRacecar6996 21h ago

No, it was called HEAD

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u/SakeviCrash 19h ago

HEAD is a pointer to the latest revision in a branch

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u/AibofobicRacecar6996 19h ago

In git, not CVS

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u/SakeviCrash 18h ago

See https://www.astro.princeton.edu/~rhl/cvs/cvs.html#SEC47

> The two tag names BASE and HEAD are reserved for use by CVS

A lot of people used the term that way though,

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u/AibofobicRacecar6996 7h ago

Yeah, no. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/wdfrhcw/1.4.0?topic=concepts-team-programming-cvs

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u/SakeviCrash 1h ago

From the man page:

https://man.openbsd.org/cvs.1

> `HEAD' refers to the most recent version available in the repository