Maybe it’s worth putting something in an faq - that we support the intent of 
the master to main naming convention, but that as we are a small community 
trying to improve many aspects of 50 years of development, this one had to 
unfortunately take a back seat for the moment while we simplify other things to 
make this an easier change?


Tim

> On 19 Jul 2021, at 12:26, stephane ducasse <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Sven 
> 
> From that perspective this master to main change will cost us a lot of 
> problem. 
> I decided to continue to configure all my repositories to use master and I 
> will do it for any repository that is related to 
> pharo and that people may use. Just to remove such kind of friction. 
> I would encourage people to do the same like that we do not have to think.
> 
> S
> 
>> On 12 Jul 2021, at 14:32, Sven Van Caekenberghe <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> For new GitHub projects the default branch is now main instead of master.
>> 
>> There is however code in Metacello / Iceberg / ... that tries a number of 
>> options if no branch is specified, but it is not yet aware of this change.
>> 
>> Specifically:
>> 
>> This does not work 
>> 
>> ./pharo reddit.image metacello install github://svenvc/Reddit 
>> BaselineOfReddit
>> 
>> instead you have to say
>> 
>> ./pharo reddit.image metacello install github://svenvc/Reddit:main/ 
>> BaselineOfReddit
>> 
>> It took me half an hour to figure this out ;-)
>> 
>> Sven
>> 

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