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Wed, 3 Sep 2025 14:40:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Junio C Hamano To: Phillip Wood Cc: Patrick Steinhardt , phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk, git@vger.kernel.org, Johannes Schindelin , Wing Huang Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] breaking-changes: switch default branch to main In-Reply-To: <9d52f24e-d495-44d4-b122-7d80d1f4b77f@gmail.com> (Phillip Wood's message of "Wed, 3 Sep 2025 10:54:06 +0100") References: <487d1a33130cb2fafadcf98da00a332a7408a0e8.1756308283.git.phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk> <96e128d9-e5e3-4bfc-9e33-3caa75cacfe6@gmail.com> <9d52f24e-d495-44d4-b122-7d80d1f4b77f@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2025 11:40:05 -0700 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Phillip Wood writes: > When the variable was introduced in 704fed9ea22 (tests: start moving > to a different default main branch name, 2020-10-23) it was described > as "This `GIT_TEST_*` variable is meant purely for the transitional > period while the entire test suite is converted to use `main` as the > initial branch name by default." The way it has been used is to allow > tests to continue to hard code a fixed name for the default initial > branch. Yes, but ripping it out would mean that you make it much harder to transition out of 'main' and move to the next correct name when the need comes, wouldn't it? > ... like to keep the patches that switch the tests from using > "master" to "main". I have no problem with that. I am still unsure about that "reftable cares about the name being 'master'" thing. If that can live with any 6 byte name, we may want to fix it to something different from 'master', for the sake of removing 'master'. Perhaps 'banana' or something?