Notes: master → main

The git world has moved from “master” as the default branch to “main”.

What would it take to change edX and Open edX repos from master to main?

GitHub instructions for renaming a branch: https://docs.github.com/en/github/administering-a-repository/renaming-a-branch
- Unfortunately, GitHub won’t auto-forward “master” references to “main”, so everyone with a clone needs to manually rename the branch also.
  - GitHub provides instructions, but they are three command-line commands, which not everyone is comfortable using.
After renaming the branch and pushing it, update the repo on GitHub (see info here for steps below):
- Update default branch to be main
- Update branch protection rules
- delete master
- set the remote HEAD
- find/update references to master in the repo (.yaml and .yml files, .github/workflows, etc)
edX pipelines: update ‘master’ to ‘main’ where it appears in pipeline yml files (code here)
jenkins?
readthedocs: project settings mention “master” as the branch to build.
openedx.yaml files have “openedx_release: {“ref”: “master”}” in them.
confluence process pages that mention master