Re: Heads up: Geary mainline development branch renamed to `mainline`

[Mathieu Bridon <bochecha daitauha fr>]

On Fri, 2019-04-26 at 10:38 +0200, Niels De Graef via desktop-devel-
list wrote:
> Note that you don't need to script this kind of stuff, if you use the
> following tricks:
>
> # 1. This creates a symbolic link from master to mainline, which
> solves your problem already.
> $ git symbolic-ref refs/heads/master refs/heads/mainline
>
> # 2. This worfklow doesn't even need you to specify a branch if you
> start from mainline/master
> $ git checkout -b feature/....
> # work, work, work and commit
> # If you no longer want to continue on this branch, you can go back
> to the previous one with
> $ git checkout -

# 3. Tab completion works wonders:
$ git checkout ma<tab>

Mike said himself that choosing a new name starting with the same
letters as "master" was a deliberate choice to further minimize the
disruption.


-- 
Mathieu