Default branch name in GitHub

[Giovanni Tirloni]

+1 from me!

Another helpful blog post: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/easily-rename-your-git-default-branch-from-master-to-main

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From: fluid-work <fluid-work-bounces at lists.idrc.ocad.ca> on behalf of Ned Zimmerman <nzimmerman at ocadu.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2020 10:30
To: Michelle D'Souza <michelled33 at gmail.com>; Justin Obara <obara.justin at gmail.com>
Cc: fluid-work at lists.idrc.ocad.ca <fluid-work at lists.idrc.ocad.ca>
Subject: Re: Default branch name in GitHub


I’m in full support of this!



Cheers,

Ned

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Ned Zimmerman (he/him)

Senior Inclusive Developer

Inclusive Design Research Centre, OCAD University

https://idrc.ocadu.ca



From: fluid-work <fluid-work-bounces at lists.idrc.ocad.ca>
Date: Tuesday, October 20, 2020 at 10:29 AM
To: Justin Obara <obara.justin at gmail.com>
Cc: fluid-work at lists.idrc.ocad.ca <fluid-work at lists.idrc.ocad.ca>
Subject: Re: Default branch name in GitHub

Let’s switch to using “main”. It’s easy to do and more inclusive. https://dev.to/afrodevgirl/replacing-master-with-main-in-github-2fjf



Michelle







On Oct 20, 2020, at 9:17 AM, Justin Obara <obara.justin at gmail.com<mailto:obara.justin at gmail.com>> wrote:



While this has actually been in effect since Oct 1 I just now realized that by default GitHub creates new repositories using “main” instead of “master”. I’m not intending to weigh in on the naming debate here, but I do think we need consistency.



For details about the name change and how to manage it, see https://github.com/github/renaming



What I’d propose is that we pick a name that the community is most comfortable with. Below are the tasks to address after a decision is made.



Options:



  *   Keep Master:

     *   Update the organization settings for the “Repository default branch” name
     *   Change any newly created repos to use “master” as the default branch

  *   Use Main:

     *   Update all existing repos to use “main” as the default repo
     *   Update our individual forks as needed

  *   Use some other name:

     *   Update the organization settings for the “Repository default branch” name
     *   Update all existing repos to use “main” as the default repo
     *   Update our individual forks as needed



Thanks

Justin

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