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

[Daniel Mustieles García <daniel mustieles gmail com>]

Hi Michael,

As I've already commented in https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/geary/issues/403, having a "mainline" branch instead of a "master" branch is confusing for applications like Damned Lies, breaking for example cherry-picks from other branches to "master" branch, as it doesn't exist.

Stable branches can be named with your own nomenclature (no need to name them gnome-x.yy) but I would encourage you to keep the "master" branch. It is the standard name for GNOME's development branches and helps developers and contributors to identify where to look up the last version of the source code.

If every GNOME's module begins naming it's "master" branch to whatever the maintainer wants, this will be a chaos... I don't know where is the advantage of this renaming (we don't belong to Linux kernel develpment, as exposed in #324), but coherence across modules should be kept.

Regards.

El mié., 24 abr. 2019 a las 3:46, Michael Gratton (<mike vee net>) escribió:

Hi all,

Just a quick heads-up for people who have use git directly for
traslating Geary: As part of
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/geary/issues/324 The `master` branch has
been renamed to `mainline`. Same great content (and command line
completion prefix), snazzy new name. :)

So it would be worth doing a `git fetch && git checkout mainline` ASAP,
cherry pick any pending commits you have on the master branch, then
deleting the old branch to avoid committing more changes to it in the
future (`git branch --delete master && git remote prune origin`).

This change happened a few weeks ago, my apologies for not letting
everyone on the list know sooner.

Cheers!
//Mike

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⊨ Michael Gratton, Percept Wrangler.
⚙ <http://mjog.vee.net/>


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