Re: Proposal: renaming 'master' branch to 'main'

2023-02-20 Thread Daniel P . Berrangé
On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 02:55:10PM +, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > I'd suggest it is time to libvirt to get on this train and rename our > default branch to 'main' in all repositories. > > There are essentially two options > > * Rename 'master' to 'main' > > With this, anyone pulling

Re: Proposal: renaming 'master' branch to 'main'

2023-01-17 Thread Jim Fehlig
On 1/16/23 07:55, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: I don't recall exactly when it first came up, but it has been a few years now since the idea of moving away from 'master' as the git default branch name became a topic in OSS communities. Far from the first mention:

Re: Proposal: renaming 'master' branch to 'main'

2023-01-17 Thread Daniel P . Berrangé
On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 09:02:23AM +0100, Martin Kletzander wrote: > On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 02:55:10PM +, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > I don't recall exactly when it first came up, but it has been a few years > > now since the idea of moving away from 'master' as the git default branch > >

Re: Proposal: renaming 'master' branch to 'main'

2023-01-17 Thread Ján Tomko
On a Monday in 2023, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: There are essentially two options * Rename 'master' to 'main' With this, anyone pulling from an existing checkout will get an error telling them that 'master' does not exist. It won't tell them about 'main', but at least it gives them a

Re: Proposal: renaming 'master' branch to 'main'

2023-01-17 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 09:02:23AM +0100, Martin Kletzander wrote: > On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 02:55:10PM +, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > I'd suggest it is time to libvirt to get on this train and rename our > > default branch to 'main' in all repositories. > > > > There are essentially two

Re: Proposal: renaming 'master' branch to 'main'

2023-01-17 Thread Martin Kletzander
On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 02:55:10PM +, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: I don't recall exactly when it first came up, but it has been a few years now since the idea of moving away from 'master' as the git default branch name became a topic in OSS communities. Far from the first mention:

Proposal: renaming 'master' branch to 'main'

2023-01-16 Thread Daniel P . Berrangé
I don't recall exactly when it first came up, but it has been a few years now since the idea of moving away from 'master' as the git default branch name became a topic in OSS communities. Far from the first mention: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2020/jun/23/gitbranchname/ Both gitlab.com and