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? > ... 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?
