Thread (1 message) 1 message, 1 author, 2020-12-17

Re: [PATCH 00/11] Drop the PREPARE_FOR_MAIN_BRANCH prereq

From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2020-12-17 01:42:18

"Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget" [off-list ref]
writes:
To address that, I spent some time to convert just the affected scripts to
using main, adjusting them in a way where they do not depend on the name git
init gave the initial branch at all, which allowed me to drop that prereq
altogether.

None of these changes should be controversial, intentionally so, to allow
this patch series to go in before v2.30.0 is tagged, so that we can enjoy
the full coverage of the test suite again.
Thanks for taking care of this one.  The titles all imply that we
are committed to switch the default to 'main', but I understand that
the focus is more about using a hardcoded initial branch in these
tests, so that the tests will not be affected when the default
changes from 'master' to any other value, even when the ":dirname"
and ":random" magic were to be invented and used as the default ;-)

So these may get unwarranted "who says we gained a concensus to
change the default in that direction?" complaint, which might want
to be reworded, ...
  t3200: finish transitioning to the initial branch name `main`
  t3201: finalize transitioning to using the branch name `main`
  t3203: complete the transition to using the branch name `main`
  t3205: finalize transitioning to using the branch name `main`
  t5505: finalize transitioning to using the branch name `main`
... but these just make a statement of fact (i.e. these scripts use
X as initial branch name), and less likely to confuse the matter.
  t1400: use `main` as initial branch name
  t5510: use `main` as initial branch name
  t5703: use `main` as initial branch name
  t6302: use `main` as initial branch name
  t9902: use `main` as initial branch name
And of course, this is what we want:
  tests: drop the `PREPARE_FOR_MAIN_BRANCH` prereq
Thanks.
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