Re: Renaming the repositories' primary branches

+1 to doing this tomorrow.

My experience has been similar to yours, i.e. this type of change in
other repos has so far always worked very smoothly.

Markus

On 24.03.21 09:05, Ivan Herman wrote:
> Now that the CR publication is behind us, I propose to go ahead and
> rename the primary branches from 'master' to 'main' for the following
> repositories:
>
> did-spec-registries
> did-use-cases
> did-rubric
> did-test-suite
>
> I propose to do this tomorrow, 25th of March.
>
> In my experience with other repositories the transfer goes mostly
> smoothly. When done, I will circulate the set of git commands that you
> will have to issue in your local clones (if you have any), although
> those commands are also shown in a github popup the first time you go
> to that repository with your login. If you have active PR-s from a
> clone, those are automatically re-assigned by github, you do not have
> anything to do. I am not sure whether that is also true if you have a
> PR from a forked repository (as opposed to a clone of the core
> repository itself), better check.
>
> There is one hiccup that I have experienced several times: the
> gh-pages feature, ie, to look at the editor's draft served from
> github, often goes wrong and you get a 404. I have my tricks now on
> how to settle that, and I hope it will work out this time, too, but if
> you experience a problem you will have to shout at me… (In any case, a
> reload in your browser bypassing the browser cache is always a good idea…)
>
> Cheers
>
> Ivan
>
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