Re: FYI: default branches for httpwg repos

Thanks for the heads up, I support this change.

On Sat, 13 Feb 2021, 23:47 Mark Nottingham, <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> We're in the process of changing the default branch from 'master' to
> 'main' for our repos; most of the repos are already done, because they're
> not actively used by multiple people, and so the risk of making the change
> was correspondingly low.
>
> Now that we're comfortable with the process, we think the risk of a
> problem is slight and well-understood, and so are going to switch over the
> following repos:
>
> * httpwg/http-extensions
> * httpwg/structured-field-tests
>
> Github will automatically rewrite URLs, PRs, etc. to handle this; the only
> impact is that anyone with a clone of one of these repos will need to run:
>
> git branch -m master main
> git fetch origin
> git branch -u origin/main main
>
> You'll also see a notice with these instructions the first time you visit
> the repo on the Web after this change is made.
>
> This will leave httpwg/http-core as the only httpwg repo with a 'master'
> branch. Given that core is about to ship, we thought it prudent to wait
> until the end of that process before making this change.
>
> We expect to make this change in the next 48 hours, and will send out an
> e-mail when the process is completed, so that anyone with a local clone can
> run the commands above. Please get in touch with me or Tommy if you have
> any problems.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Mark Nottingham   https://www.mnot.net/
>
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