Re: Rename "master" branch to "main" for glibc 2.35 release.

[DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>]

Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> writes:
> what documentation exactly are you concerned about here ?

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.

> 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 checkout
> once.

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.

The internet is a mess and the best instructions are "you don't need to
do anything, it will just work" because of that.

> there's no need to keep "master" redirecting to "main" forever,

There's no reason to not keep it either.