Just correcting an incorrect 'Cc:' for James Ramsay, which I am fixing in this email (and for anybody who replies to it). On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 02:57:22PM -0600, Taylor Blau wrote: > Hello, > > Over the past few days or so, there has been significant discussion [1] and > patches [2] about changing the name of the default branch away from 'master' and > towards something else. > > Concurrently with this, GitHub, GitLab [3], and Bitbucket are working together > in order to make a similar change across our respective products. Because of > this, we are met with a bit of a challenge: we would like to make these changes > before the next version(s) (and so need to settle on a new default branch name), > but we also want to avoid a situation where the community is fractured (eg., > GitHub uses 'main', Git uses 'default', etc). > > A related question is whether or not we plan to change the default value of > 'core.defaultBranchName' at all (once Johannes' patches land, of course). That > seems to be the intent in [4], but forming consensus around this would be good, > too. > > So, I would like to form some consensus here as to what the new name should be, > if that is something we're committing to doing. This way, we can make this > decision now (and allow hosts to make their corresponding changes) while still > giving us on the list some time to work on the implementation across one or > more release boundaries. > > My interpretation thus far is that 'main' is the planned replacement for > 'master'. Consensus seems to have formed around this name [5], but if that's > incorrect--or there are yet-unvoiced opinions that you would like to share--now > is the time to discuss further. > > Thanks, > Taylor > > [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/CAOAHyQwyXC1Z3v7BZAC+Bq6JBaM7FvBenA-1fcqeDV==apdWDg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ > [2]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/pull.656.v2.git.1592225416.gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx/ > [3]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/222204 > [4]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.2006111610000.56@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ > [5]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.2006091126540.482@ZVAVAG-DN14RQO.ybpnyqbznva/ Thanks, Taylor
