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

From: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 4, 2025, 13:27 UTC
Message-ID: <fcf633f6-26bb-405a-8cfb-718333c71dcd@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqcy87fkhm.fsf@gitster.g>

On 03/09/2025 19:40, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com> writes:
>> ... like to keep the patches that switch the tests from using
>> "master" to "main".
> 
> 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?

In the end I left it as "master" as the series was really about changing the default branch name rather than eliminating "master" from the test suite. There are a bunch of other tests that also use "git init -b master" which we may want to change in the future, though to me updating the documentation to stop using "master" as an example branch name would be a higher priority.

Thanks

Phillip