Revisiting an older thread, On 9/12/20 10:15 PM, Michael Witten wrote:
> I see now that the home page (https://www.gnu.org/software/m4/) does indeed > inform the user to checkout that particular branch: > > git checkout -b branch-1.4 origin/branch-1.4 > > I had a really old repo in which I just ran 'git pull', and so I did not > know better. > > Is the 'master' branch intended to be abandoned? If so: > > * Maybe it would be worthwhile to point 'master' to a commit that offers > nothing but a 'README' explaining the abandonment. Now done (experimental 2.0 code is now in branch-2.0 instead). I'm also wondering if I should take this opportunity to change 'master' to 'main'; thoughts? > > * Perhaps 'git config' offers some help. The variable 'transfer.hideRefs' > looks like it might be worth investigating, but I'm not certain. > > * Run the following in the bare repository; it should help the user out > by informing 'git clone' which branch to set up as the default: > > $ git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/branch-1.4 I don't know if I have access to Savannah's bare repository storage. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org
