On Wed, Feb 19, 2025 at 02:12:40AM +0100, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli wrote: > This doesn't take care of existing repositories, and it is possible to > handle that as well but the way I know does require practical control > over the infrastructure (there may be better ways though that works > without ssh access): > > $ git checkout origin/master -b temporary > $ git push origin HEAD:main > $ ssh root@server > $ cd /path/to/repository.git > $ git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/main # Change the main branch > $ git symbolic-ref refs/heads/master refs/heads/main # Make master point to > main > > I did it on many Replicant repositories for instance, and it's 100% > transparent to the users. With that, new clone of the repositories use > main by default.
Nice, thanks for sharing these tips!
