Re: Rename offensive terminology (master)

From: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: Jun 16, 2020, 12:54 UTC
Message-ID: <20200616125415.xnnxp5jnlkszorum@chatter.i7.local>
In-Reply-To: <20200616002313.GC164606@google.com>

On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 05:23:13PM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

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> > 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