On a Tuesday in 2020, Peter Krempa wrote:
On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 17:33:15 +0200, Ján Tomko wrote:According to latest fashion trends, it is possible to rename the default branch. Can we rename it to 'main'? It's one less syllable and two letters shorter.We should do this only if it's possible to rename it in such a way that keeps old checkouts working. I don't want to fix all clones I have around and I don't want to fix my muscle memory.
In that case, I probably asked too early since not even GitHub (which plans to change the default for new repos soon) supports that: https://github.com/github/renaming#later-this-year-seamless-move-for-existing-repositories- Jano
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