Preserving the history of these links is an absolute must. For now, I will manually keep it parallel with main, and I'll happily help anyone migrate any PRs against the deprecated master to their new home at main. Eventually I plan to build a tool to create an orphan commit at master which replaces every .md file, including anchors, with a link to the appropriately anchored place at our new main branch.
Once this PR has been merged,
main
will be our main branch, rather thanmaster
.We have many links to our documentation out in the wild, such as: https://github.com/diffplug/spotless-changelog/blob/master/README.md#keep-your-changelog-clean
Preserving the history of these links is an absolute must. For now, I will manually keep it parallel with main, and I'll happily help anyone migrate any PRs against the deprecated master to their new home at main. Eventually I plan to build a tool to create an orphan commit at master which replaces every .md file, including anchors, with a link to the appropriately anchored place at our new main branch.