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master -> main #2479

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penelopeysm opened this issue Jan 23, 2025 · 4 comments
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master -> main #2479

penelopeysm opened this issue Jan 23, 2025 · 4 comments

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@penelopeysm
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penelopeysm commented Jan 23, 2025

I think it's time to propose that we consistently renamed all our master branches to main.

It's worth noting that not only is this more inclusive terminology, but TuringLang repos are pretty much the only place I still have to type master (it has been 4 years since GitHub changed the default), so we are a little bit of an outlier in this respect.

I understand that this causes breakage (the arguments for/against this have been, shall we say, exhaustively explored by other people!), but bigger projects than ours have done it and haven't died, so I think we could survive it :)

In the short term, it might be a bit tricky to get used to, but in the long term it'll be easier on us too. (This issue was prompted by me running git checkout main and getting an error for the N-th time 😅 and sometimes the other way round, running git checkout master on other repos and getting an error)

cc @TuringLang/maintainers

(Edited to sound less annoyed, sorry 😅)

@yebai
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yebai commented Jan 23, 2025

Not a big deal. Feel free to change it!

@mhauru
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mhauru commented Jan 23, 2025

I don't mind either, go for it.

@penelopeysm
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Thanks both, will just wait to see if anybody has strong objections:)

@willtebbutt
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No objections from me!

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