On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 10:29:12AM -0800, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 10:36:36AM +0100, Robert-André Mauchin wrote: > > On 12/3/20 4:02 PM, Ben Cotton wrote: > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/GitRepos-master-to-main > > > > > > == Summary == > > > > > > This Change will move Fedora git repositories to use "main" as the > > > default git branch instead of "master". Specific repositories will be > > > manually moved and default git branch for new projects will be set to > > > use "main". > > > > > > The Fedora Community strives to be open and welcoming. Some language > > > around our git repositories is dated and could be more inclusive. Many > > > git repositories currently use "master" as the default branch. This > > > Change will move many repositories (see below) to use a "main" branch > > > as default. This small bit of naming adjustment is in-line with > > > Fedora's vision for free and open source software built by inclusive, > > > welcoming, and open-minded communities. > > > > > > > > > > How does it work for the enduser? I have thousand of git repos locally with > > the master branch, will it rename automatically master to main when I git > > pull or do I need to run a special command? > > You will need to reclone or run some commands in those existing > checkouts. > > If you have a clone that has 'master' branch and we delete that, and you > 'git pull' you will get: > > Fetching origin > Your configuration specifies to merge with the ref 'refs/heads/master' > from the remote, but no such ref was fetched. > > So you will need to do: > > git checkout main > git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/main main
Since the main branch will exist on the remote, you may be able to do: git fetch git checkout main and I think the git branch --set-upstream-to is no longer needed then > then git pull. > > I don't think there's anything we can do on the server side to make that > easier. Pingou any ideas? Not at the moment. Pierre _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
