Re: Replacing "master" reference in git branch names (was Re: Proposal: Replace all references to master/slave in GNOME modules)

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Mon, 2019-05-06 at 21:13 +0200, Frederic Peters wrote:
> Bastien Nocera wrote:
>
> > - How?
> >
> > It is possible to rename the "master" branch in git. It's also
> > possible
> > to add a "link" of sorts so that software that specifically
> > references
> > "master" can be made to work with the new name[5].
>
> I checked and there is an hardcoded reference (git) master (branch)
> in
> library-web; while other GNOME changes did destroy much of library-
> web
> (meson without alternative way to get gtk-doc HTML files), it would
> still be nice to have the compatibility link (or for someone to step
> up and adapt library-web).
>
> And looking at it now, jhbuild, too, has references to the branch.

This should fix one instance of it:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/jhbuild/-/merge_requests/84

I haven't looked at library-web because I have a whole bunch of work
that I'd need to do with it, but not the bandwidth...

> cheers,
>         Fred
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