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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0004333 | Composr | core | public | 2020-07-29 02:47 | 2024-07-25 01:05 |
| Reporter | Chris Graham | Assigned To | |||
| Severity | Feature-request | ||||
| Status | non-assigned | Resolution | open | ||
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| Summary | 0004333: Rename master branch to main in git (on hold) | ||||
| Description | There is a wide movement to rename the master git branch to main, by convention. This is because of a perception that 'master' in master branch refers to a master/slave relationship, which is normalizing a metaphor of something horrific that should be kept to the history books. 1) ALTERING CODE I have done some of the work for this already, altering our code to make it more easy to put in a new stable branch name. We just need to change the master references in THANKS.md and version.php. 2) RENAMING ACTUAL BRANCH These commands should do it: git checkout master git branch -m main git push origin :master git push origin main:refs/heads/main 3) OTHER REPOSITORIES Do this across any other repositories we are maintaining for the long-term, not just the main Composr repository. 4) SEARCH TRACKER Fix any references to 'master' on the tracker. | ||||
| Additional Information | Personally I feel the renaming is silly, given that the name 'master' is nothing to do with master/slave, and a normal English word used for many purposes (e.g. master's degree, headmaster, mast on a ship, master copy, etc). However my personal feelings are irrelevant because Git, GitHub, BitBucket, and GitLab, are all pressing forward with the rename and we should stick to convention. And honestly it doesn't hurt much, and 'main' is less characters to type. This issue is on hold until GitLab: a) makes URLs to 'master' branch files (etc) redirect to the configured main branch. GitHub have announced this for year end, and I do think GitLab will do it too. b) automatically migrates stuff like merge requests on 'master' to 'main' (ditto) | ||||
| Tags | Roadmap: Over the horizon | ||||
| Time estimation (hours) | 2 | ||||
| Sponsorship open | |||||
| related to | 0005484 | resolved | Patrick Schmalstig | Pedantic: Replace all uses of the word "master" |
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Discussion on Git mailing list (they are slowly changing to main): https://lore.kernel.org/git/pull.656.v4.git.1593009996.gitgitgadget@gmail.com/ GitLab's writeup: https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2021/03/10/new-git-default-branch-name/ |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2020-07-29 02:47 | Chris Graham | New Issue | |
| 2020-07-29 02:48 | Chris Graham | Tag Attached: Roadmap: v12 | |
| 2022-07-28 02:58 | Chris Graham | Note Added: 0007398 | |
| 2024-03-26 00:58 | Patrick Schmalstig | Tag Renamed | Roadmap: v12 => Roadmap: Over the horizon |
| 2024-07-25 01:05 | Chris Graham | Relationship added | related to 0005484 |
