From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C7A23858C20 for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2022 03:45:18 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.1 sourceware.org 6C7A23858C20 Received: by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix, from userid 559) id DB96E342DFC; Sun, 30 Jan 2022 03:45:17 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2022 22:45:23 -0500 From: Mike Frysinger To: DJ Delorie Cc: carlos@redhat.com, fweimer@redhat.com, jakub@redhat.com, libc-alpha@sourceware.org, schwab@suse.de, joseph@codesourcery.com, maxim.kuvyrkov@linaro.org Subject: Re: Rename "master" branch to "main" for glibc 2.35 release. Message-ID: Mail-Followup-To: DJ Delorie , carlos@redhat.com, fweimer@redhat.com, jakub@redhat.com, libc-alpha@sourceware.org, schwab@suse.de, joseph@codesourcery.com, maxim.kuvyrkov@linaro.org References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="u4Sxmw9J7FKLExEp" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, KAM_DMARC_STATUS, SPF_HELO_PASS, SPF_PASS, TXREP, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: libc-alpha@sourceware.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Libc-alpha mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2022 03:45:20 -0000 --u4Sxmw9J7FKLExEp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 29 Jan 2022 21:10, DJ Delorie wrote: > Mike Frysinger writes: > > what documentation exactly are you concerned about here ? >=20 > I don't know, which is a bit frightening. How many web pages on the > internet talk about glibc's "master" branch? I pretty regularly run > across web pages that are worse than useless because they rely on "the > old way" and I'd like to avoid that if possible, and leaving behind an > alias is both possible and pretty trivial. the docs will change, or they're obsolete. the world didn't fall down when we moved from cvs to git. or any other toolchain project that moved from cvs to git, or to svn and then git. this is a lot of drama for nothing. > > this is making much ado about nothing. "fixing" a checkout is a single > > command to change what branch is being used to merge. even then, it's = not > > like the world will explode if someone has to manually fixup their chec= kout > > once. >=20 > Did you write up those instructions? *I* don't know how to do it, other > than "delete tree; checkout fresh". Do you know where users will go > searching for those instructions? Unless you put a highly obvious note > on the top of glibc's wiki home page, I bet most people won't be able to > easily find it. >=20 > The internet is a mess and the best instructions are "you don't need to > do anything, it will just work" because of that. the docs already exist. https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/GlibcGit/MigrationToMain -mike --u4Sxmw9J7FKLExEp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAABCAAdFiEEuQK1JxMl+JKsJRrUQWM7n+g39YEFAmH2CdMACgkQQWM7n+g3 9YFVHQ//cd0jlbHcDeytz095EvnaXV+FViX/ZDghcAZymKzJQO77Op8QQfQnZksJ D1chRfi6GtlpNX2+dT3qhpcHuceZGqKpXIPdhVacrK2c170drgZ2bhg9kNi8AFW9 1/cj4uVs+Ma1GVUNQGD9+wNgcZN+wluzxV9UWp9B/I7lRiVmipZ3k/Eg9Eufnq2D B/Sxz+19dPMsVqfUiLJYClufZuJNriiApp39NlVXSLpa02Q5srgV7daqk7ly9My5 /9tFfrlkq3pw0nfx+zPuq9C4e9+sD+0HcGFPKdNztbQH7zYsof29GZxKz7sdrfRv bClRt2qCJgO+c1K4Es8mOk/jULWoXus7LvM7m5e9waxNLP0zRy0kUYeCZNU+S7Kx LMFxein4xLT5kLPjXR0unbfqB+nu0qdl2FbnZ2M9Ia9P9Fc9KVcFdiV6n/Gh4+hI 7hAYMlYHhkMZqcT2uprGpetsJwY/QVbcx/RiJ0/GY5UZAlzA3xfPdDI/+OSllg+/ yWs1SoXRQWziBFLrvF3OykNnqLrDX7p1zzlVPZlE9rhIhIkzXd/OCtad8Gp3gMM3 awgCCJIx0/B6L/hPuOWweCdLL4LiTu/cF+QMY2GO86Nh0dKuQIiVPs2PFSjSVYg2 5XKxysJ2VNhGOv2eB+sx2nd5gwH3sbACnI8Ig24mYf5FEOVBZQg= =uCdb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --u4Sxmw9J7FKLExEp--