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[-] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 24 points 9 months ago

Yeah main has been the defacto default branch name for like half a decade now

[-] TunaCowboy@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

git whoosh --hard

[-] learningduck@programming.dev 5 points 9 months ago

Wait. It's that long?

Felt like we joke about the announcement 2 years ago. Time fly lol

[-] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

Imma be honest I pulled that estimate out of my ass lol, but I feel like it was pre-pandemic? which would put it at at least 4 years ago and so holy shit I'm gonna go cry in a corner because it's been 4 years since the start of the pandemic

[-] throwwyacc@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 9 months ago

Isn't this only the case in github? All my repos are based from master, and I would assume that's because I init on the command line and push up to the remote?

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

GitLab also changed a few years back. We host our own, so got the update later than people using the service … it was a bit of an argument at first since everyone wanted to stick with the familiar, but laziness won out. Unfortunately, it’s not really justifiable to go back and change legacy projects, so now it’s inconsistent

[-] throwwyacc@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 9 months ago

If you don't have any scripts that rely on branch name it should be pretty trivial actually. But I wouldn't be shocked if you had a few dozen scripts that nobody has looked at in the last century lol

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

The question actually came up for a new tool to help automate dependency updates. Do we need to change the config to account for the inconsistency?

It turns out we don’t: it correctly uses the default branch, no matter what it’s called. However we had to consider the question. and investigate. It spent someone’s time

this post was submitted on 03 Mar 2024
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