Re: [PATCH 00/28] Use main as default branch name

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
>
> > 	case "$TEST_NUMBER" in
> > 	3404|4013|5310|5526|6300|7064|7817|9902)
> > 		# Avoid conflicts with patch series that are cooking at the same
> > 		# time
> > 		# as the patch series changing the default of
> > 		# `init.defaultBranch`.
> > 		GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_INITIAL_BRANCH_NAME=master
> > 		export GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_INITIAL_BRANCH_NAME
> > 		;;
> > 	*)
> > 		GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_INITIAL_BRANCH_NAME=main
> > 		export GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_INITIAL_BRANCH_NAME
> > 		;;
> > 	esac
>
> I actually am not a big fan of the centralized table of "these want
> to run with main".  My ideal would be to have an explicit assignment
> of either master or main for tests that absolutely require the
> default to be one of these names at the top of these script, and any
> test scripts that do not care what the initial branch is called
> (perhaps because they begin by switching to a branch whose name is
> picked by them immediately after they start and use that name
> throughout) won't have GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_INITIAL_BRANCH_NAME in them.