Branch Renaming work beginning June 28th
Heather Greer Klein
In accordance with their charge of upholding the Samvera Community’s Code of Conduct and reflecting its core values by eliminating coding jargon that perpetuates racist systems, language, and mentalities, the Samvera Branch Renaming Working Group is implementing changes to Samvera repositories in June 2021, updating the default branch name from “master” to “main.”
The remaining work will be undertaken by the members of the Branch Renaming Working Group during the week of June 28, 2021 for repositories under Samvera organization, to be completed by the end of that week. Changes will be reported on the Samvera Slack #dev channel. Repositories under Samvera-Labs organization will be renamed at a later date in the near future.
What does this mean for contributors?
If you have a fork on GitHub, update the default branch name to “main.” See the Samvera Virtual Connect 2021 Branch Renaming WG Update slides for screenshots illustrating how to do this.
Once the branch has been updated in the fork, GitHub will alert users to the change when they visit the repository’s page, and at the terminal.
If you have a local clone, you can update it by running the commands in this GitHub gist on your local copy after the change has been made.
If you have questions or would like assistance in ensuring your copies of Samvera repositories are up-to-date, please do not hesitate to contact the Branch Renaming Working Group in the Samvera Slack #branch-renaming-wg channel.