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From: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
To: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@redhat.com>
Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org, schwab@suse.de,
	joseph@codesourcery.com, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, fweimer@redhat.com,
	ryan.arnold@gmail.com, jakub@redhat.com,
	maxim.kuvyrkov@linaro.org
Subject: Re: Rename "master" branch to "main" for glibc 2.35 release.
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2022 18:33:05 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xnsft6m826.fsf@greed.delorie.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <77c04408-2508-350e-2f8e-db070e8d35f6@redhat.com> (carlos@redhat.com)


"Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@redhat.com> writes:
> No alias would be provided for the master branch;

This would invalidate decades of online documentation in an instant, and
for that alone I oppose this part of your proposal.

It will also break existing git checkouts, even if you write very clear
documenation (you did, right? ;) about how to "fix" a checked out master
branch.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-01-29 23:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-29 22:32 Carlos O'Donell
2022-01-29 22:45 ` Phil Blundell
2022-01-29 23:33 ` DJ Delorie [this message]
2022-01-30  1:35   ` Mike Frysinger
2022-01-30  2:10     ` DJ Delorie
2022-01-30  3:45       ` Mike Frysinger
2022-01-30  2:35 ` Paul Eggert
2022-01-30  5:41   ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2022-01-31 12:46 ` Florian Weimer
2022-01-31 13:41   ` Andreas Schwab
2022-01-31 14:55   ` Carlos O'Donell
2022-02-01  0:59     ` Dmitry V. Levin
2022-02-01  3:05       ` Carlos O'Donell
2022-01-31 12:50 ` Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho
2022-01-31 16:19 ` Joseph Myers
2022-01-31 17:59   ` Dan Raymond
2022-01-31 18:04     ` Dan Raymond
2022-01-31 22:49   ` Carlos O'Donell
2022-01-31 23:04     ` Joseph Myers
2022-02-01  3:02       ` Carlos O'Donell
2022-01-31 18:09 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2022-01-31 18:14   ` H.J. Lu
2022-01-31 18:21     ` Adhemerval Zanella
2022-01-31 18:28   ` DJ Delorie
2022-02-01  3:08     ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2022-02-01  3:44       ` DJ Delorie
2022-02-01  5:05         ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2022-02-01  7:25           ` Carlos O'Donell
2022-01-31 20:15   ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2022-01-31 21:24     ` Adhemerval Zanella
2022-02-01  2:51       ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2022-02-01  9:49     ` Florian Weimer
2022-02-01 10:26       ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2022-02-03  5:57 ` Carlos O'Donell

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