[postgis-devel] Make "master" branch also available as "main"

[Regina Obe]

I still don't remember agreeing to this change :(
For GEOS I cared less.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: postgis-devel [mailto:postgis-devel-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf
> Of Sandro Santilli
> Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2021 6:19 PM
> To: PostGIS Development Discussion <postgis-devel at lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: Re: [postgis-devel] Make "master" branch also available as "main"
> 
> Following up on this, as some time has passed since I did the soft launch on
> GEOS, today I've done the soft launch on PostGIS as well.
> 
> What I did:
> 
>   - Make the default branch "main"
>   - Turn "master" into an alias for "main"
>   - Configure gitlab/github CI bots to skip building from "master"
>     (it'd be a duplicated build)
>   - Change CI badges in README.md (of main branch) to reference the
>     "main" branch
>   - Change WIKI CI badges to reference the "main" branch
> 
> The simplest way to get your local git clones to switch to the main branch is:
> 
>   git pull && git checkout main # and stop using master...
> 
> --strk;
> 
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 11:38:41PM +0100, Sandro Santilli wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 11:30:56PM +0100, Sandro Santilli wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 01:18:20AM +0300, Darafei "Kom?pa" Praliaskouski
> wrote:
> > > > Hey, the point of the thing is not to add a thing called "main"
> > > > but to get rid ot the thing called "master" which your plan fails
> > > > to accomplish. If we go there, go all-in.
> > >
> > > I know what's the plan, but "go all-in" takes time.
> > > I'm just offering a way to keep things working in the meanwhile.
> >
> > To be more explicit: by doing the "aliasing" thing we can focus on
> > updating CI configs, local environment, CI badges etc.
> >
> > As different people will be involved in doing these changes, each one
> > with at their own pace, it's nice that thing still work for everybody.
> >
> > I remember when we went from "trunk" to "master" some contributors
> > were too annoyed by being unable to do the "rebasing" we asked them to
> > do (can't remember if it was GEOS or PostGIS) and just gave up and run
> > away. This would not happen, as the "rebase" would not be needed at
> > all.
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