Re: Getting rid of "hint: Using 'master' as the name for the initial branch." when initializing a repository with pygit

From: Michal Suchánek <msuchanek@suse.de>
Date: Feb 1, 2022, 20:02 UTC
Message-ID: <20220201200246.GW3113@kunlun.suse.cz>
In-Reply-To: <YfmPiZZ/1RGzzfWE@nand.local>

On Tue, Feb 01, 2022 at 02:52:41PM -0500, Taylor Blau wrote:

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> On Tue, Feb 01, 2022 at 07:41:28PM +0100, Michal Suchánek wrote:
> > I noticed that in some environments the default branch warning is
> > displayed and not others because the git version varies.
> >
> > The warning is just noise in the test log so I would like to avoid it,
> > and I would like to find a solution that works for git that predates the
> > introduction of this warning and the option to silence it as well as
> > the future git versions in which the default is subject to change.
> >
> > AFAICT there is no clean way to do it. I can set up the global option to
> > whatever but I don't want to do that just to run tests.
> 
> If you have set the init.defaultBranch configuration, we will suppress
> the hint you're talking about.

That's the problem - there is no way to pass the configuration when using a library to create a repository.

> 
> Alternatively, you can make sure that `git init` is invoked with the
> `-q` (quiet) flag, which suppresses that warning whether or not you have
> set the init.defaultBranch config.

Yes, that is exactly the option that would do it.

Thanks

Michal