Re: [PATCH 6/6] breaking-changes: switch default branch to main

From: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Date: Sep 5, 2025, 06:07 UTC
Message-ID: <aLp-NA6FIIX5k7xh@pks.im>
In-Reply-To: <d990d908-5513-4f35-91ec-ff860ca126d5@gmail.com>

On Thu, Sep 04, 2025 at 02:30:58PM +0100, Phillip Wood wrote:

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> On 04/09/2025 08:09, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 03, 2025 at 11:40:05AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > > 
> > > I have no problem with that.  I am still unsure about that "reftable
> > > cares about the name being 'master'" thing.  If that can live with
> > > any 6 byte name, we may want to fix it to something different from
> > > 'master', for the sake of removing 'master'.  Perhaps 'banana' or
> > > something?
> > 
> > Huh, did I miss anything? I scanned the thread for reftables but
> > couldn't find any discussion around it relying on a 6 byte name. Could
> > you maybe provide a pointer to what you are referring to?
> 
> c.f. <xmqqwm6ozn7d.fsf@gitster.g>. In t0613 some of the tests check various
> sizes of things in the reftable and those depend on the length of the branch
> name

Ah, makes sense. Thanks for the pointer.

Patrick