Re: main != master at github.com/git/git

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On Tue, Aug 15, 2023 at 06:16:29PM -0400, Taylor Blau wrote:

> > An alternative might be to exclude one of the branches in the workflow file,
> > as per [1].
> 
> I think that this should be relatively straightforward to do, and would
> be preferable to dropping 'main'.

That was my inclination, too, though I wonder if that might cause
hassles for Git for Windows:

  $ git ls-remote --symref https://github.com/git-for-windows/git HEAD
  ref: refs/heads/main	HEAD
  a67b85bf88ddbccae96714edb64d741ddfc3a1c9	HEAD

I'm not sure how big a deal it would be in practice. Obviously they
carry patches that are not in upstream git and could adjust the file
themselves that way. But it might introduce extra friction, and in my
experience changes to "meta" files like this can be a hassle, because
you often want them independently on every branch (though in theory this
one only matters for the "main" branch itself).

So I won't say it's obviously a bad idea, but it might bear some
thinking on what the ramifications would be for downstream.

-Peff



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