+1 Thanks for getting the ball rolling on this, Bobby!
On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 5:26 PM Bobby Bruce via gem5-dev <gem5-dev@gem5.org> wrote: > Dear all, > > Back when we moved from the master branch being under constant development > to a dual "master-as-stable" and "develop" branch setup, there was talk of > renaming the master branch. Though, at this time, it seemed unconventional > so avoided doing so. In the past few months there has been greater momentum > in the direction of allowing git repositories to call their default branch > whatever they wish. For example, Github is reworking things in this regard ( > https://github.com/github/renaming/) and defaulting new repos to have > "main" as the default branch. > > Our GoogleSource/Gerrit setup allows us to set HEAD to point towards > whatever branch we wish. We therefore think v20.1 would be a good time to > rename "master" to "stable". This afternoon I created a "stable" branch, > identical to "master", here: > https://gem5.googlesource.com/public/gem5/+/refs/heads/stable. The next > step would be to redirect HEAD to this branch, then delete the master > branch. Coinciding this with the release of v20.1 (in roughly 2 weeks time) > seems like an ideal timing. > > I'm writing this email to ask if the community agrees with this, and if > there is anything I'm not taking into account. I believe this should be a > fairly seamless transition, and will give our two branches more descriptive > names --- stable and develop. > > Kind regards, > Bobby > -- > Dr. Bobby R. Bruce > Room 2235, > Kemper Hall, UC Davis > Davis, > CA, 95616 > > web: https://www.bobbybruce.net > _______________________________________________ > gem5-dev mailing list -- gem5-dev@gem5.org > To unsubscribe send an email to gem5-dev-le...@gem5.org > %(web_page_url)slistinfo%(cgiext)s/%(_internal_name)s
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