Re: Can git change?

From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 22, 2021, 13:31 UTC
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD0fZBdZ6qwDP9_yW7VAfskTKPC7HVSpK4rD=bORuECpJA@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi,

On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 2:05 PM Patricia B. C. <pati.camsky@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hello!
> My name is Patricia and I work as a software engineer in Brazil. I
> also teach sometimes at Le Wagon, a programming school.
> I brought the discussion about changing our repositories' branch to
> main instead of master. The response of one of the owners was that
> "Git has not changed it, so we will not change". So here I was,
> wondering if maybe Git would hear me out :)
> Do you have any thoughts on it?

There have been a lot of discussions about this topic. You can find some pointers to them (though maybe not the most recent ones) in the article "The history of `master` in Git" in:

https://git.github.io/rev_news/2020/07/29/edition-65/

There has been also an official statement by the Conservancy and the Git PLC (Project Leadership Committee):

https://sfconservancy.org/news/2020/jun/23/gitbranchname/

Best, Christian.