Re: Fedora 34 Change: GitRepos-master-to-main (Self-Contained Change)

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On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 03:25:20PM +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 04:15:24PM +0100, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 04:08:26PM +0100, Fabio Valentini wrote:
> > > On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 4:03 PM Ben Cotton <bcotton@xxxxxxxxxx> 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".
> > > 
> > > Is there a reason why "main" is proposed instead of "rawhide" on src.fp.o?
> > > For all non-dist-git repositories I am fine with "main", but if we are
> > > changing this anyway, "rawhide" would actually make more sense for
> > > dist-git repos.
> > 
> > One of the argument was that not every namespace on dist-git has a rawhide
> > version, for example containers do not have/use rawhide.
> > And having different default branches on different namespaces is not very
> > appealing.
> 
> I second the request to use "rawhide" for rawhide branches.
> 
> The way that branches in dist-git are used is very different from how
> branches are used in the usual git repo, so I find the argument that
> the same rules as in other repos should be used convincing. If we rename

Not convincing? :) 

> it to rawhide, we have the simple rule that "branch of a given name is
> used to build for that Fedora release", without any further explanation
> about one exception necessary.

Thats nice I guess, but it's still going to be more confusing for new
users that would expect a main branch (after more things move to that
around the world). 

I suppose we could split the difference and make main a ref to rawhide
or vice versa?

kevin

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