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Re: Consensus on a new default branch name

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SLSteve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com>
Date
Jun 16, 2020, 17:44 UTC
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On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 12:10:01 -0400 Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

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> 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.

Makes perfect sense to me. No reasonable person can argue against giving individual repository owners the ability to *easily* call their "primary" branch anything they want.

This flame war plus the publicity it generated lets everybody know that someday, whether in 1 month or 5 years, the default will be something other than "master", so they'll start changing their software and scripts to accommodate a variable instead of a hardcode, so when the change happens, there will be minimal software disruption and minimal hurt feelings.

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