On 2020-06-24 at 14:46:27, Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget wrote: > A growing number of open source projects aims to avoid the branch name > master due to its negative connotation. See [1] for an existing discussion > on this. The links [2], [3], and [4] describe community-driven ways for > users to rename their default branches or use template edits to set a new > default branch name. > > [1] > https://lore.kernel.org/git/CAOAHyQwyXC1Z3v7BZAC+Bq6JBaM7FvBenA-1fcqeDV==apdWDg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ > > [2] https://twitter.com/mislav/status/1270388510684598272 > > [3] > https://www.hanselman.com/blog/EasilyRenameYourGitDefaultBranchFromMasterToMain.aspx > > [4] https://github.com/ethomson/retarget_prs > > By necessity, existing repositories require a lot of manual work to move > away from that branch name, but it should be much easier for new > repositories. > > This patch series allows overriding the branch name being used for new > repositories' main branch. This can be configured via init.defaultBranch. > > The initial patch was started by newcomer Don Goodman-Wilson, as well as the > bigger change that morphed into #655, where we demonstrate how to change > Git's hard-coded default branch name for new repositories to main based on > this here patch series, verifying the approach. Thanks for the contribution! > > This series DOES NOT change the default automatically, but only provides an > opt-in mechanism for interested users. The plan for that is to convert the > test scripts incrementally (by introducing GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_MAIN_BRANCH_NAME > , which overrides init.defaultBranch, and then converting the tricky test > scripts first, one by one, using that environment variable). I'm very happy with this and the way it's progressed since v1. This seems simpler than earlier designs, and I appreciate the improved focus on avoiding special-casing branches, since I think that will make it easier for folks to choose branch naming that suits them. Thanks for working on this. -- brian m. carlson: Houston, Texas, US OpenPGP: https://keybase.io/bk2204
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