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Rename master branch to main #312

Closed tmbgreaves closed 3 years ago

tmbgreaves commented 3 years ago

https://github.com/github/renaming

As this will need branches/PRs to be updated, I propose that we set a date for the switchover so the developer community is aware the change is pending and can update accordingly. As a suggestion, how would people feel about a date in around one month, aiming for a midweek switchover on 26th May?

tmbgreaves commented 3 years ago

@stephankramer @jrper @drhodrid - Any thoughts on whether 26th May would be a reasonable target date for a renaming?

stephankramer commented 3 years ago

Thanks Tim. This sounds fine to me

tmbgreaves commented 3 years ago

With no recently-active PRs open at the moment I think we're in good shape for this switch on Wednesday - if anyone has any last minute requests for postponement please speak now!

gnikit commented 3 years ago

Out of curiosity what will happen to PRs in Fluidity or repos that depend on Fluidity when the renaming happens. Is it as simple as rebasing and updating the branch?

tmbgreaves commented 3 years ago

PRs should be fairly straightforward - if you 'edit' the name in the github web interface, you get a drop-down option to change the base branch. I think most dependent repos which hook into Fluidity will hook into the default branch rather than the master branch, and the default will get switched to 'main' so that should be fairly seamless. If there's an upstream, I guess it will probably need updating, but that again is reasonably straightforward from command line.

gnikit commented 3 years ago

Thanks @tmbgreaves for the explanation, that's great!

tmbgreaves commented 3 years ago

Changeover complete.