Re: [PATCH 00/10] Prepare for changing the default branch name main (last manual part)
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Date
- Oct 21, 2020, 21:59 UTC
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"Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:
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> In preparation for changing the default of init.defaultBranch to main, here > are a couple of manual adjustments that cannot be automated (i.e., these > adjustments are not mere search-and-replaces). > > This patch series is based on js/default-branch-name-part-3, and is part of > the larger effort tracked at https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/655. > > The next patch series will be largely automated search-and-replaces; > Obviously, the search-and-replace was the easy part, the manual inspection > whether the changes are actually correct was much more involved.
Yes. That's always the pain-point of a tree-wide change like this.
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> What to expect next, after this patch series? Essentially, there is the > large patch series that adjusts the entire test suite, with two patch series > extracted from that effort: t5411 and t5515 simply require too large > patches, and will therefore be presented as the next patch series after this > one.
This one is already a bit too ambitious in that it collides with stuff in flight, by the way.