Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Change branch from "master" to "main" #438

Open
kersten1 opened this issue May 14, 2024 · 1 comment
Open

Change branch from "master" to "main" #438

kersten1 opened this issue May 14, 2024 · 1 comment

Comments

@kersten1
Copy link

As a gentle reminder, the "Friendly Terminology" policy link which uses the "Inclusive Naming" community link includes the word "master" as a Tier 1: Replace Immediately word.

You can follow these steps to rename your branch: https://gist.github.com/danieldogeanu/739f88ea5312aaa23180e162e3ae89ab

@jrtc27
Copy link
Collaborator

jrtc27 commented May 14, 2024

Unlike just replacing terms in documents, renaming branches is disruptive to everyone who has cloned the repository, so I'm loathe to do this unless it's deemed actually important (and from what I read online at the time this was a hot topic of discussion, it was deemed dubious whether this use of the term was actually offensive, but got bundled up with the movement regardless). In my day job we've done this for many of our repositories, but we have a tool that automatically manages local clones so were able to switch branches locally too for the users.

Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment
Labels
None yet
Projects
None yet
Development

No branches or pull requests

2 participants