[petsc-users] [petsc-dev] headsup: switch git default branch from 'master' to 'main'

[Satish Balay]

I plan to delete 'master' immediately - so that folk don't assume it still exits and work with it [assuming its the latest, creating MRs against it etc..]

Satish

On Fri, 26 Feb 2021, Patrick Sanan wrote:

> The answers to these were probably stated already, but the reminder might be useful to others, as well.
> 
> What will happen to "master" after today? Will it be deleted immediately or at some planned time? If not immediately deleted, will it be updated to match main?
> 
> > Am 23.02.2021 um 18:19 schrieb Satish Balay via petsc-dev <petsc-dev at mcs.anl.gov>:
> > 
> > All,
> > 
> > This is a heads-up, we are to switch the default branch in petsc git
> > repo from 'master' to 'main'
> > 
> > [Will plan to do the switch on friday the 26th]
> > 
> > We've previously switched 'maint' branch to 'release' before 3.14
> > release - and this change (to 'main') is the next step in this direction.
> > 
> > Satish
> > 
>