Re:GitHub, fuck your name change
by kazinator on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @11:39AM
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Changing the default branch name in git is technically disruptive, therefore annoying to people who have to deal with it.
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Re:GitHub, fuck your name change
by christiansakai on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @12:05PM
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I imagine so for monorepos with plenty of developers working on it. But wouldn't that be solved easily with "git rebase -i <the_branch_that_change_the_name>" and maybe some other CI/CD pipeline.
In contrast, not perpetrating an idiotic rename requires no action at all.
It would be a pain, but they're not changing any existing repos so it's up to the team to coordinate if they want to adopt such a change themselves (and GitHub have enhanced some of their tooling around branch renames to make it easier to do as well).