From: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail•com>
To: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks•im>, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
Cc: phillip.wood@dunelm•org.uk, git@vger•kernel.org,
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx•de>,
Wing Huang <huangsen365@gmail•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] breaking-changes: switch default branch to main
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2025 14:30:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d990d908-5513-4f35-91ec-ff860ca126d5@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aLk7QEEWy4nWxsQK@pks.im>
On 04/09/2025 08:09, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 03, 2025 at 11:40:05AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>
>> I have no problem with that. I am still unsure about that "reftable
>> cares about the name being 'master'" thing. If that can live with
>> any 6 byte name, we may want to fix it to something different from
>> 'master', for the sake of removing 'master'. Perhaps 'banana' or
>> something?
>
> Huh, did I miss anything? I scanned the thread for reftables but
> couldn't find any discussion around it relying on a 6 byte name. Could
> you maybe provide a pointer to what you are referring to?
c.f. <xmqqwm6ozn7d.fsf@gitster•g>. In t0613 some of the tests check
various sizes of things in the reftable and those depend on the length
of the branch name
Thanks
Phillip
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-09-04 13:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-08-27 15:24 [PATCH 0/6] breaking changes: switch default initial branch name to "main" Phillip Wood
2025-08-27 15:24 ` [PATCH 1/6] t0018: switch default branch name to main Phillip Wood
2025-08-27 17:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-08-28 14:00 ` Phillip Wood
2025-08-28 16:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-08-28 21:31 ` brian m. carlson
2025-08-27 15:24 ` [PATCH 2/6] t4013: " Phillip Wood
2025-08-27 15:24 ` [PATCH 3/6] t9902: " Phillip Wood
2025-08-27 15:24 ` [PATCH 4/6] t0613: stop setting default initial branch Phillip Wood
2025-08-27 17:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-08-27 15:24 ` [PATCH 5/6] t1403: remove dependency on GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_INITIAL_BRANCH_NAME Phillip Wood
2025-08-27 15:24 ` [PATCH 6/6] breaking-changes: switch default branch to main Phillip Wood
2025-08-27 18:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-09-02 11:36 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-09-02 15:13 ` Phillip Wood
2025-09-03 4:44 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-09-03 9:54 ` Phillip Wood
2025-09-03 11:51 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-09-03 18:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-09-04 7:09 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-09-04 13:30 ` Phillip Wood [this message]
2025-09-05 6:07 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-09-04 13:27 ` Phillip Wood
2025-08-28 13:12 ` [PATCH 0/6] breaking changes: switch default initial branch name to "main" Johannes Schindelin
2025-09-04 13:21 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] " Phillip Wood
2025-09-04 13:21 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] breaking-changes: switch default branch to main Phillip Wood
2025-09-04 17:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-09-05 10:06 ` Phillip Wood
2025-09-05 15:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-09-04 13:21 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] t4013: switch default branch name " Phillip Wood
2025-09-04 13:21 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] t9902: " Phillip Wood
2025-09-04 18:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-09-05 10:07 ` Phillip Wood
2025-09-05 12:14 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-09-09 9:12 ` Phillip Wood
2025-09-04 13:21 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] t0613: stop setting default initial branch Phillip Wood
2025-09-04 18:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-09-05 10:09 ` Phillip Wood
2025-09-04 17:03 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] breaking changes: switch default initial branch name to "main" Junio C Hamano
2025-09-04 18:47 ` Phillip Wood
2025-09-10 15:28 ` [PATCH v3 " Phillip Wood
2025-09-10 15:29 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] breaking-changes: switch default branch to main Phillip Wood
2025-09-10 15:29 ` [PATCH v3 2/4] t4013: switch default branch name " Phillip Wood
2025-09-10 15:29 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] t9902: " Phillip Wood
2025-09-10 15:29 ` [PATCH v3 4/4] t0613: stop setting default initial branch Phillip Wood
2025-09-10 20:41 ` [PATCH v3 0/4] breaking changes: switch default initial branch name to "main" Junio C Hamano
2025-09-17 9:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-09-17 12:02 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2025-09-17 15:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-09-17 14:53 ` Phillip Wood
2025-09-17 15:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-09-17 16:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-09-18 15:06 ` Phillip Wood
2025-09-17 16:18 ` [PATCH v2 5/4] initial branch: give hints after switching the default name Junio C Hamano
2025-09-18 15:06 ` Phillip Wood
2025-09-18 18:42 ` Junio C Hamano
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