From: Mark Jamsek Subject: Re: Defaulting primary branch name to "main" To: Stefan Sperling Cc: gameoftrees@openbsd.org Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2019 13:02:11 +1100 > On 2 Nov 2019, at 11:26 am, Jerome Kasper wrote: > > Le 01/11/2019 à 21:47, Tracey Emery a écrit : >> On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 07:02:49PM +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote: >>> On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 01:24:01PM -0400, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote: >>>> OpenBSD cvs works on the "MAIN" branch by default. This diff moves got >>>> to using "main" by default rather than "master". As a side benefit, it >>>> also avoids using the potentially loaded term "master". >>> I am fine with this change. Apart from the negative connotations of >>> the terminology, promoting the idea that branch names are always chosen >>> by convention is good. Having a different default branch name than Git >>> helps to spread the idea that branch names aren't necessarily the same >>> everywhere. >>> >> Is this going to require a new got branch rename function? It's going to >> get confusing to go between got generated trees and git generated trees >> when managing both with got. I don't know. Maybe it doesn't matter and >> after time, everyone will get used to the change. > I do agree with Tracey , I am also wondering if this is not going to create some confusion > just to match cvs behaviour for the fun of "being different" (no offense intended) > Do we need to create volountary mismatches with usual git behaviour? It would create > harder sync with usual various git repositories,because it would probably mean overhead > in other developpement cases. I also agree with Tracey; it’s inconducive to seamless integration with most existing practices. And an unexpected behaviour considering the synopsis on gameoftrees.org >>>> >>>> >>> Same here. > Stefan, you're GoT father, choice belongs to you :) Very clever. GoTfather is great! And completely agree: the GoTfather’s decision will be supported regardless. > > Kind regards, > Jerome