Change the default branch from `master` to `main`
In order to support the discussion and our initiative of changing the default branch name, we should follow this GitLab Issue
Let's rename master
to main
-
Make sure any branch name depending scripts are updated -
Make sure there are no blockers to make this change -
Change the contribution guidelines to reflect the non-standard default branch name -
Set main
as default branch -
change target branch of all open merge requests to main
-
unprotect master
, delete it, and protectmaster
branch again, allowing no one to create it -
propagate the changes to the security repo
A similar project that just went through this change: gitlab-svgs#127 (comment 378289361)
Edited by Tomas Vik