Terminology: what to call the trunk

[Dirkjan Ochtman]

On 04/12/2008 17:20, Greg Ward wrote:
> So far I'm on safe ground ... I understand CVS very well and
> Subversion pretty well.  Now I'm going out on a limb:
>
>    * Git and Mercurial both have a formal notion of the trunk and a way
>      to name it.  In git's case, it's called "master", and in
>      Mercurial's case it's called "default".  Regardless, master/default
>      is always there and can always be named: "git checkout master" and
>      "hg update default" take you back to the trunk.
>
> Is that correct (at least as far as Mercurial is concerned)?
>
> Or is "default" just the *default* name of the trunk?  I.e. can I
> decide that I want to call the trunk "trunk" instead of "default"?

I can't speak for git, but that sounds correct for Mercurial. You cannot 
*decide* the default's branch name, it's always 'default'.

Good luck with educating your colleagues. :)

Cheers,

Dirkjan