On Wed, Apr 10, 2024 at 6:52 AM Simon Horman <ho...@ovn.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I would like to announce that the primary development branch for OvS
> has been renamed main.
>
> The rename occurred a little earlier today.
>
> OVS is currently hosted on GitHub. We can expect the following behaviour
> after the rename:
>
> * GitHub pull requests against master should have been automatically
> re-homed on main.
> * GitHub Issues should not to be affected - the test issue I
> created had no association with a branch
> * URLs accessed via the GitHub web UI are automatically renamed
> * Clones may also rename their primary branch - you may
> get a notification about this in the Web UI
>
> As a result of this change it may be necessary to update your local git
> configuration for checked out branches.
>
> For example:
> # Fetch origin: new remote main branch; remote master branch is deleted
> git fetch -tp origin
> # Rename local branch
> git branch -m master main
> # Update local main branch to use remote main branch as it's upstream
> git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/main main
>
> If you have an automation that fetches the master branch then please
> update the automation to fetch main. If your automation is fetching
> main and falling back to master, then it should now be safe to
> remove the fallback.
>
> This change is in keeping with OVS's recently OVS adopted a policy of
using
> the inclusive naming word list v1 [1, 2].
>
> [1] df5e5cf4318a ("Documentation: Add section on inclusive language.")
> [2] https://inclusivenaming.org/word-lists/
>
> Kind regards,
> Simon
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Thanks Simon. Shall this be announced to ovs-announce as well?
Han
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