Change default Wayland branches to 'main'

Aleix Pol aleixpol at kde.org
Thu Apr 8 14:38:44 UTC 2021


On Thu, Apr 8, 2021 at 1:22 PM Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> Going with a lot of other Git-based projects (and following the leads of e.g. GitHub and GitLab), freedesktop.org is planning to change the default branch name for its new projects to 'main' rather than 'master'.
>
> Mesa is already migrating, and they have helpfully prepared a small Python script which will retarget open MRs from 'master' to 'main'.
>
> I propose that we do this for all the wayland/* repositories, either this weekend or next; I'm happy to make the changes (rename 'master' to 'main' and retarget all open MRs). Does anyone have any opinions or suggestions?

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