Renaming the 'master' branch

Peter Krempa pkrempa at redhat.com
Tue Sep 29 15:55:30 UTC 2020


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.




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