Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] Add new "describe" atom

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> 
> > The linux-gcc job is where we force the initial branch name to be
> > 'main' and not 'master', so if your tests assume that the initial &
> > primary branch name is 'master', that may be something you need to
> > fix.
> 
> Perhaps something along the line of the attached patch?
> 
> The primary test repository t6300 uses is aware of the "problem"
> where the tester may set GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_INITIAL_BRANCH_NAME
> to 'main' and hacks it around by using
> 
> 	git branch -M main
> 
> as one of the first things it does, to _force_ the primary branch
> name always to 'main', whether the tester's environment forces "git"
> to start with 'main' or 'master', and existing tests in the script
> relies on 'main' being the primary branch.
> 
> But your tests are done in a repository newly created with your own
> "git init", so depending on the tester's environment, the primary
> branch may be 'master' or 'main'.  The way your new tests are
> written, however, things will fail if "refs/heads/master" is not the
> primary branch.
> 

>  t/t6300-for-each-ref.sh | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git c/t/t6300-for-each-ref.sh w/t/t6300-for-each-ref.sh
> index 4bbba76874..489f4d9186 100755
> --- c/t/t6300-for-each-ref.sh
> +++ w/t/t6300-for-each-ref.sh
> @@ -563,7 +563,7 @@ test_expect_success 'color.ui=always does not override tty check' '
>  '
>  
>  test_expect_success 'setup for describe atom tests' '
> -	git init describe-repo &&
> +	git init -b master describe-repo &&
>  	(
>  		cd describe-repo &&