From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.8 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_PASS, SPF_PASS shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A3A31F5AE for ; Tue, 16 Jun 2020 16:48:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1729974AbgFPQsm (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Jun 2020 12:48:42 -0400 Received: from cloud.peff.net ([104.130.231.41]:33544 "EHLO cloud.peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728861AbgFPQsl (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Jun 2020 12:48:41 -0400 Received: (qmail 23931 invoked by uid 109); 16 Jun 2020 16:48:41 -0000 Received: from Unknown (HELO peff.net) (10.0.1.2) by cloud.peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.94) with ESMTP; Tue, 16 Jun 2020 16:48:41 +0000 Authentication-Results: cloud.peff.net; auth=none Received: (qmail 14698 invoked by uid 111); 16 Jun 2020 16:48:41 -0000 Received: from coredump.intra.peff.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.2) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.94) with (TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Tue, 16 Jun 2020 12:48:41 -0400 Authentication-Results: peff.net; auth=none Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2020 12:48:40 -0400 From: Jeff King To: Santiago Torres Arias Cc: Taylor Blau , git@vger.kernel.org, James Ramsay , Bryan Turner Subject: Re: Consensus on a new default branch name Message-ID: <20200616164840.GB678873@coredump.intra.peff.net> References: <20200615205722.GG71506@syl.local> <20200615212154.GA79696@syl.local> <20200616143107.GL666057@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20200616161001.fa5wa2br5ois2csr@chatter.i7.local> <20200616161331.7gosaynkqg5ofgwn@LykOS.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20200616161331.7gosaynkqg5ofgwn@LykOS.localdomain> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 12:13:31PM -0400, Santiago Torres Arias wrote: > > What if we work on making this configurable for now, but stick with the > > legacy name until we introduce breaking sha1 changes? Almost everything > > will need to retool for those anyway (and all documentation rewritten), > > so it is reasonable to bundle these changes to happen at the same time. > > I wonder if allowing the buildsystem to set this default value would be > a wortwhile stepping stone. This way we can test things in different > ecosystems. If you mean allowing "make DEFAULT_BRANCH_NAME=foo", that seems reasonable to me. Though the tests likely wouldn't run in that case (unless we are planning to leave the test-environment-munging bit in place forever, I suppose). -Peff