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The Living Book of Digital Skills - a GitBook project - https://aarnet.gitbook.io/digital-skills-gitbook-1/
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Please consider changing 'master' to 'main' #174

Open JennaMalkin opened 2 years ago

JennaMalkin commented 2 years ago

Please consider changing the name of the 'master' branch to 'main' or something similar, as discussed by Casey Tonkin, "Linux, Twitter look to remove 'blacklist/whitelist' from code", Information Age, Australian Computer Society, 2020-07-08. Instructions can be seen here: https://github.com/github/renaming

JennaMalkin commented 2 years ago

This may have unintended repercussions for the published-ness of the GitBook, the GitBook people may wish to be looped in on this if it goes ahead.

sarasrking commented 2 years ago

OK thanks for bringing it up. We'll chat about it as a group and then I can see how the sync is affected between GitBook and GitHub. We may be able to uncouple them, make the change, then recouple. But I think it would be good to engage with their helpdesk first!

JennaMalkin commented 2 years ago

Absolutely on engaging with GitBook's helpdesk about changing from master branch to main branch. If it happens, all contributors will need to sync their forks to get their 'master' branches to change.