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([2a0a:ef40:7a5:4701:8cee:45ed:2bd5:e17c]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 5b1f17b1804b1-45b57487910sm145703735e9.15.2025.08.26.04.20.48 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:20:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2025 12:20:48 +0100 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Reply-To: phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk Subject: Re: [PATCH] rename default branch from 'master' to 'main' in refs and test scripts From: Phillip Wood To: Wing Huang via GitGitGadget , git@vger.kernel.org Cc: Wing Huang , Andreas Schwab References: <0a574b62-273e-4519-855f-66c554cd93c7@gmail.com> Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <0a574b62-273e-4519-855f-66c554cd93c7@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On 26/08/2025 10:58, Phillip Wood wrote: > On 26/08/2025 05:52, Wing Huang via GitGitGadget wrote: >> From: Wing Huang >> >>      rename default branch from 'master' to 'main' in refs and test >> scripts >>      This patch updates Git's default branch name from 'master' to >> 'main' to >>      align with modern naming conventions adopted across the industry. > > Thank you for your interest in this. We're currently planning to change > the default branch name when Git 3.0 is released as documented in > Documentation/BreakingChanges.adoc. Oh, sorry it seems I imagined that. I've just checked and there is no entry in that document about the default branch name. I do think that the 3.0 release would be a good time to change the default branch name though. Thanks Phillip