----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Angelico" <ros...@gmail.com>
> To: "Python-Dev" <python-dev@python.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 4:20:19 PM
> Subject: [Python-Dev] Re: Steering Council update for February
>
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 12:16 AM Evpok Padding <evpok.padd...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Dear all,
> >
> > Apparently renaming a git branch to follow the general convention is now an
> > unbearable outrage.
>
> It is NOT a general convention. It is a push by Microsoft (owners of
> GitHub). Outside of GitHub, the git command still uses "master" as the
> default name.
>
The git project is working on that for a long time and the default will be
switched at some point:
https://lore.kernel.org/git/nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.2006091126540.482@ZVAVAG-DN14RQO.ybpnyqbznva/#r
Gitlab is also transitioning. It was changed in all the Fedora's repositories
as well.
> This is a *political* move made for *political* reasons, and has
> consequences downstream. Why is it so important to cause actual real
> problems for no reason other than to feel good about one insignificant
> piece of language - and, as Steve pointed out, not even the most
> significant one?
>
> Let's take ChainMap as an example. Would you propose renaming it in
> Python 3.11? Would there be pushback against such a proposal? Things
> in the Python standard library, when renamed, can have aliases to
> ensure backward compatibility. Can you do that with a branch rename?
> What plans are there to ensure that scripts and tooling can work on
> both sides of such a rename?
>
On Fedora we use a git symbolic reference for the old branches.
> Why has there been no discussion of the technical implications of this
> change prior to now?
>
> ChrisA
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Charalampos Stratakis
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