On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 9:03 AM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
<zbyszek(a)in.waw.pl> wrote:
On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 12:24:32PM -0800, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 03:25:20PM +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 04:15:24PM +0100, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote:
> > > On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 04:08:26PM +0100, Fabio Valentini wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 4:03 PM Ben Cotton <bcotton(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/GitRepos-master-to-main
> > > > >
> > > > > == Summary ==
> > > > >
> > > > > This Change will move Fedora git repositories to use
"main" as the
> > > > > default git branch instead of "master". Specific
repositories will be
> > > > > manually moved and default git branch for new projects will be
set to
> > > > > use "main".
> > > >
> > > > Is there a reason why "main" is proposed instead of
"rawhide" on src.fp.o?
> > > > For all non-dist-git repositories I am fine with "main",
but if we are
> > > > changing this anyway, "rawhide" would actually make more
sense for
> > > > dist-git repos.
> > >
> > > One of the argument was that not every namespace on dist-git has a
rawhide
> > > version, for example containers do not have/use rawhide.
> > > And having different default branches on different namespaces is not very
> > > appealing.
> >
> > I second the request to use "rawhide" for rawhide branches.
> >
> > The way that branches in dist-git are used is very different from how
> > branches are used in the usual git repo, so I find the argument that
> > the same rules as in other repos should be used convincing. If we rename
>
> Not convincing? :)
Yeah, sorry. That sentence was clearly too long.
> > it to rawhide, we have the simple rule that "branch of a given name is
> > used to build for that Fedora release", without any further explanation
> > about one exception necessary.
>
> Thats nice I guess, but it's still going to be more confusing for new
> users that would expect a main branch (after more things move to that
> around the world).
>
> I suppose we could split the difference and make main a ref to rawhide
> or vice versa?
That'd work for me.