[GRASS-dev] Renaming master branch to main branch

[Vaclav Petras]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 3:32 PM Veronica Andreo <veroandreo at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Well, since addon repo structure changed and master is no longer used as
> base branch, but grass7, and eventually it will be grass8, the name change
> does not seem very relevant or urgent there, no?
>

That is correct. A much larger change happened, or rather, is happening for
addons.

https://github.com/OSGeo/grass-addons/issues/528

The master branch was kept in the repo for backwards compatibility, so that
old g.extension version can install from it, but now it seems rather
useless since old version of g.extension wrongly assumes that main or
master translate to the default branch, so they can't fetch addons from
branch called master anyway. (master is translated to trunk in the GitHub
Subversion interface which is used to fetch the source code, but trunk
points to default which is now the new grass7 branch which has the new
structure which the old g.extension can't handle - well, at least as far as
I understand)
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