[cabfpub] Changing the default branch on https://github.com/documents/

Wayne Thayer wthayer at gmail.com
Fri Jul 31 15:52:46 UTC 2020


I'll be making this change at 11:00 PDT / 18:00 UTC today.

If you have a local clone of the documents repository, you may want to
update it to recognize "main" as the new default branch once I've completed
this change.

- Wayne

On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 10:00 AM Wayne Thayer <wthayer at gmail.com> wrote:

> As you may be aware, there is an effort underway in many organizations to
> move away from naming the default branch of GitHub repositories "master"
> [1]. This was discussed by the Infrastructure subcommittee and it was
> agreed to change the name to "main" in the CAB Forum documents repository
> on 31-July.
>
> If you have cloned or forked the documents repository, you should update
> or create a new one after this change has been made.
>
> If you have built automation against this repository, you should plan to
> change any branch references from "master" to "main".
>
> - Wayne
>
> [1]
> https://www.zdnet.com/article/github-to-replace-master-with-alternative-term-to-avoid-slavery-references/
>
>
>
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