Can I distract people for a moment to ask a couple procedural questions
about this change? I maintain my own fork of
https://github.com/python/cpython, but don't yet see a main branch on
python/cpython.


   - When is the new main branch supposed to appear
   - Once it does, what will I need to do other than to update my fork?
   - I have a branch in my fork (register2) which is a branch from my
   fork's master. Not being a Git whiz, how will I switch so my register2
   branch has the new main as its upstream (I think that's the correct word)?
   - How long will master be around after the switch before going to that
   big branch in the sky?

I was able to scrounge up the few commands necessary to make the change to
one of my standalone projects and successfully move it from master to main.
The several articles I at least peeked at all followed pretty much the same
recipe as this one:

https://stevenmortimer.com/5-steps-to-change-github-default-branch-from-master-to-main/

None, however, discuss how the change will affect forks. I'm a bit unclear
how that part is supposed to work. I thought I might find a process PEP
about this change, but saw nothing obvious in PEP 0. I'm sure this is a
trivial few git commands for those more familiar with the toolchain than I
am, but I see over 18k forks of the repository. I suspect a few people out
of that crowd will be in the same boat as me.

Thx,

Skip
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