Re: Proposal: renaming 'master' branch to 'main'

On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 02:55:10PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > I'd suggest it is time to libvirt to get on this train and rename our > default branch to 'main' in all repositories. > > There are essentially two options > > * Rename 'master' to 'main' > > With this, anyone pulling from an existing checkout will get an > error telling them that 'master' does not exist. It won't tell > them about 'main', but at least it gives them a sign that something > in their checkout probably needs changing. > > Downside is that any URLs pointing to source files / commits with > a branch name in the URL will become 404s. > > * Clone 'master' to 'main' > > With this, anyone pulling from an existing checkout will get no > updates. It is very easy for people to not realize that they are > tracking a branch which is no longer used > > Downside is also that the undesirable term 'master' remains > present in the repo, even if unused. We might also miss places > which still refer to 'master' which will end up outdated We can also then remove everything from master and just keep a README file explaining the situation.