Re: RES: Can git change?

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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
>
> > And I have to admit that I am somewhat concerned about your students if
> > one of their instructors thinks that their education shouldn't prepare
> > them for more than working locally on their computers. Aren't they at all
> > interested in preparing the students for life after university? If so,
> > they will most certainly be affected by GitHub's decision.
>
> GitHub's decision will most affect projects that haven't started
> yet, simply because they won't have to incur any "transition" cost
> the existing projects may have to consider.  And given enough time,
> old projects die out and there will be more new projects than the
> projects we currently have, hopefully.
>
> Until that happens, they would be affected more by decision by the
> projects they interact with, as it is most convenient if your local
> name matches the name the upstream uses.  And the versions of Git
> way before people started talking about 'master' and 'main' have
> long been prepared for that, and we've been closing possible gaps in
> the recent versions.  "git clone" would notice what name the upstream
> uses and uses the same name locally.
>
> Even when they work locally, they'll start getting 'main' from their
> Git soon, and that would become consistent with the name that their
> "upstream" projects are likely to choose due to this "industry wide"
> push.
>
>
> > Any repository created on GitHub will have that branch name by default.
> > Likewise on Azure DevOps. I fully expect the other hosters to follow at
> > some stage, and also for `git init` to change the default in a future
> > version (I am working toward that goal).
> > ...
> > Maybe Git itself is not a good example for that. Bigger projects face
> > dramatically bigger challenges replacing the default branch name because
> > of the short term disruption caused by it. Nevertheless, a growing number
> > of projects have already renamed their default branch, such as Snowpack
> > (https://github.com/snowpackjs/snowpack) and the react-refresh webpack
> > plugin (https://github.com/pmmmwh/react-refresh-webpack-plugin) but also
> > bigger ones such as LLVM (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project).
>
> Yes, thanks for giving Patricia and likeminded souls more usable
> ammunition than just us ;-)