On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 05:23:13PM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > We run into this kind of issue in software all the time, which is > > why you see packages like PHP deprecate interfaces… but then still > > need to keep them around for decades, simply out of fear of how much > > would break if they actually took them out. > > You might be comforted to find that the series at [1] allows > requesting the previous behavior by running > > git config --global core.mainBranch master > > If that does not work in your setup, we want to know. This same > setting also allows tooling authors to experiment with the new default > early. Hopefully this can be useful. In fact, distros and images can set this in /etc/gitconfig to set a distro-wide default. -K
