On Wed, Sep 03, 2025 at 11:40:05AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > When the variable was introduced in 704fed9ea22 (tests: start moving > > to a different default main branch name, 2020-10-23) it was described > > as "This `GIT_TEST_*` variable is meant purely for the transitional > > period while the entire test suite is converted to use `main` as the > > initial branch name by default." The way it has been used is to allow > > tests to continue to hard code a fixed name for the default initial > > branch. > > Yes, but ripping it out would mean that you make it much harder to > transition out of 'main' and move to the next correct name when the > need comes, wouldn't it? I guess it depends. If we transition our tests towards becoming mostly agnostic of the default branch name then we can strip out the whole infra but still remain agile. > > ... like to keep the patches that switch the tests from using > > "master" to "main". > > I have no problem with that. I am still unsure about that "reftable > cares about the name being 'master'" thing. If that can live with > any 6 byte name, we may want to fix it to something different from > 'master', for the sake of removing 'master'. Perhaps 'banana' or > something? Huh, did I miss anything? I scanned the thread for reftables but couldn't find any discussion around it relying on a 6 byte name. Could you maybe provide a pointer to what you are referring to? Thanks! Patrick
