> On Mar 9, 2021, at 4:27 PM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote:
>
> On 3/9/2021 3:27 PM, Pablo Galindo Salgado wrote:
>
>> The Steering Council just published the community update for February:
>
> Thank you for posting this.
>
>> The Steering Council discussed renaming the master branch to main
>> and the consensus was that we should do that.
>
> I did not that this was an issue. This will break 4 of my .bat files (update
> repository and workspaces, build python.exes, run sphinx on docs, run
> coverage.) and, I presume, many other workflow scripts and bots. What is the
> upside? ('next (version)' might be more accurately descriptive, but 'main'
> works as the 'main branch we are working on'.) Does 'master' confuse people?
Hi Terry,
this is happening in many places - for example, see
https://sfconservancy.org/news/2020/jun/23/gitbranchname/
https://github.com/github/renaming
tl;dr ‘master’ has unpleasant connotations for many, so it’s being changed in
many places/many projects.
best,
—titus
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