From: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: generating a git repo: main instead of master
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2022 09:43:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877czzdz2s.fsf@mat.ucm.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Y3CrzM13qfmy6GFw@tuxteam.de
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>>> <tomas@tuxteam.de> writes:
> On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 09:03:25AM +0100, Uwe Brauer wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> It seems that more and more public repositories expect that the
>> principal git branch should be «main» instead of «master»
>>
>>
>> However, the following steps in emacs lead to a git repository, where
>> the principal branch is master instead of main.
> You can change the master branch name to main with
> git branch -m master main
> (think "move"). It is polite to coordinate with other people who
> might have cloned your repo :)
Yeah, I find this all a bit messy to be honest. I'd prefer there would
be a common standard [1]
> To change the default at git init
> git config --global init.defaultBranch main
> (git >= 2.28)
Oh I am still using 2.7.2 oh and also the command does not return error
it also does not work... time to upgrade!?
Uwe
> Cheers
Footnotes:
[1] (no flamewar, but mercurial called its principal branch default
right from the beginning, although I did not like the name, I do
appreciate it now)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-13 8:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-13 8:03 generating a git repo: main instead of master Uwe Brauer
2022-11-13 8:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-13 8:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-13 8:38 ` Uwe Brauer
2022-11-13 9:27 ` tomas
2022-11-13 14:50 ` Björn Bidar
2022-11-13 8:26 ` Peter Hardy
2022-11-13 8:32 ` Teemu Likonen
2022-11-13 8:33 ` tomas
2022-11-13 8:43 ` Uwe Brauer [this message]
2022-11-13 9:22 ` tomas
2022-11-13 9:31 ` Jean Louis
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