Re: Consensus on a new default branch name

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On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 12:13:31PM -0400, Santiago Torres Arias wrote:

> > What if we work on making this configurable for now, but stick with the 
> > legacy name until we introduce breaking sha1 changes? Almost everything 
> > will need to retool for those anyway (and all documentation rewritten), 
> > so it is reasonable to bundle these changes to happen at the same time.
> 
> I wonder if allowing the buildsystem to set this default value would be
> a wortwhile stepping stone. This way we can test things in different
> ecosystems.

If you mean allowing "make DEFAULT_BRANCH_NAME=foo", that seems
reasonable to me. Though the tests likely wouldn't run in that case
(unless we are planning to leave the test-environment-munging bit in
place forever, I suppose).

-Peff



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