[postgis-devel] Make "master" branch also available as "main"

[Sandro Santilli]

Following up on this, as some time has passed since I did the soft
launch on GEOS, today I've done the soft launch on PostGIS as well.

What I did:

  - Make the default branch "main"
  - Turn "master" into an alias for "main"
  - Configure gitlab/github CI bots to skip building from "master"
    (it'd be a duplicated build)
  - Change CI badges in README.md (of main branch) to reference the
    "main" branch
  - Change WIKI CI badges to reference the "main" branch

The simplest way to get your local git clones to switch to the
main branch is:

  git pull && git checkout main # and stop using master...

--strk;

On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 11:38:41PM +0100, Sandro Santilli wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 11:30:56PM +0100, Sandro Santilli wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 01:18:20AM +0300, Darafei "Komяpa" Praliaskouski wrote:
> > > Hey, the point of the thing is not to add a thing called "main" but to get
> > > rid ot the thing called "master" which your plan fails to accomplish. If we
> > > go there, go all-in.
> > 
> > I know what's the plan, but "go all-in" takes time.
> > I'm just offering a way to keep things working in the meanwhile.
> 
> To be more explicit: by doing the "aliasing" thing we can focus
> on updating CI configs, local environment, CI badges etc.
> 
> As different people will be involved in doing these changes, each
> one with at their own pace, it's nice that thing still work for
> everybody.
> 
> I remember when we went from "trunk" to "master" some contributors
> were too annoyed by being unable to do the "rebasing" we asked them
> to do (can't remember if it was GEOS or PostGIS) and just gave up
> and run away. This would not happen, as the "rebase" would not be
> needed at all.