[Mesa-dev] Rename "master" branch to "main"?

[Rob Clark]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 3:52 PM Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen at intel.com> wrote:
>
> On 2021-03-23 09:38:59, Eric Anholt wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 7:02 AM Jason Ekstrand <jason at jlekstrand.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > Trying to pick this discussion back up.  Daniel Stone thinks it's a
> > > half hour of API bashing to retarget all the MRs so, if the fd.o
> > > admins have some heads up, it should be tractable.  Should we do this
> > > right after branching 21.1 along with the LTS branch?
> >
> > +1
>
> Jason,
>
> I opened a related Mesa issue:
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/4501
>
> I made this change in crucible, and used a script to update the 7 MR
> target branches:
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/crucible/-/issues/5
>
> As mentioned in the Mesa issue, I think we should use piglit as
> another test run before changing Mesa:
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/piglit/-/issues/50
>
> Piglit currently has 60 open merge requests.

I'm in favor of branch rename, but was in the camp of "hope gitlab
comes up with a way to make this easy for us".. but as far as fallback
plan, converting trees with fewer outstanding MRs first seems like a
pretty good idea so solid +1 for that

BR,
-R