On a Tuesday in 2020, Peter Krempa wrote:
On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 17:33:15 +0200, Ján Tomko wrote:
> According to latest fashion trends, it is possible
> to rename the default branch.
>
> Can we rename it to 'main'?
>
> It's one less syllable and two letters shorter.
We should do this only if it's possible to rename it in such a way that
keeps old checkouts working. I don't want to fix all clones I have
around and I don't want to fix my muscle memory.
In that case, I probably asked too early since not even GitHub (which
plans to change the default for new repos soon) supports that:
https://github.com/github/renaming#later-this-year-seamless-move-for-exis...
Jano