Re: [PATCH 00/10] Prepare for changing the default branch name main (last manual part)

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Hi Junio,

On Wed, 21 Oct 2020, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> "Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx>
> writes:
>
> > In preparation for changing the default of init.defaultBranch to main, here
> > are a couple of manual adjustments that cannot be automated (i.e., these
> > adjustments are not mere search-and-replaces).
> >
> > This patch series is based on js/default-branch-name-part-3, and is part of
> > the larger effort tracked at https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/655.
> >
> > The next patch series will be largely automated search-and-replaces;
> > Obviously, the search-and-replace was the easy part, the manual inspection
> > whether the changes are actually correct was much more involved.
>
> Yes.  That's always the pain-point of a tree-wide change like this.

To help with such a huge change, I tried to minimize the manual patches,
and wrote the exact shell commands into the non-manual patches. Hopefully
this will help us with the transition.

> > What to expect next, after this patch series? Essentially, there is the
> > large patch series that adjusts the entire test suite, with two patch series
> > extracted from that effort: t5411 and t5515 simply require too large
> > patches, and will therefore be presented as the next patch series after this
> > one.
>
> This one is already a bit too ambitious in that it collides with
> stuff in flight, by the way.

Okay, I will leave out the t4013 changes from this patch series, and
re-submit once `mk/diff-ignore-regex` advances to `next`.

Thank you for reviewing this patch series,
Dscho




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