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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: Florian Weimer via Libc-alpha <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Cc: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>,  Florian Weimer
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Subject: Re: Rename "master" branch to "main" for glibc 2.35 release.
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On Jan 31 2022, Florian Weimer via Libc-alpha wrote:

> * Carlos O'Donell:
>
>> My proposal is to rename the development and release branches at the point
>> that glibc 2.35 branches:
>>
>> * master -> main
>>
>> * release/2.35/master -> release/2.35/main
>>
>> No alias would be provided for the master branch; we would immediately
>> start using 'main' as the development branch.
>
> What is the reason for using ”main” for release branches?
>
> If we don't add a symbolic ref, we could use release/2.35.

Note that release/2.35 and release/2.35/main cannot coexist with the
current ref store format.

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