As of this morning, our main repo discourse/discourse has renamed its main branch from master to main to avoid slavery references. We’ve spent a long time slowly renaming all our branches and updating our code base to support this change. However, some things may break. Please use this topic to re…

Thanks for the fix. I was wondering when this was going to happen. But now I want to know if and when you’ll be doing the rest…

What do you mean by the rest? I believe every plug-in and theme component has already been updated.

[image] eviltrout: I believe every plug-in and theme component has already been updated. Funny. Now when I checked some others in my discourse-repos I see that you’re right! But the first one I checked was discourse_docker, and it and discourse_api (and discourse-plugin-ci, which I think I, a…

Ah, I understand the confusion. Almost every sub project was renamed quite some time ago so this announcement was meant to say “and the core project is now done, too.” As for those other projects, we’ll get to them soon. We actually have hundreds of repos and a handful might have been waiting for t…

Excuse my ignorance here, but will this change the way I usually update my Discourse via command line?

What commands do you type to update via command line?

[image] Richie: Excuse my ignorance here, but will this change the way I usually update my Discourse via command line? No. It matters only if you’re a developer and know what a git branch is.

[image] eviltrout: What commands do you type to update via command line? I use: cd /var/discourse git pull ./launcher rebuild app [image] pfaffman: No. It matters only if you’re a developer and know what a git branch is. Thanks :blush:

Our default branch is now `main`

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) July 20, 2021, 7:10pm 10

No. It matters only if you’re a developer and know what a git branch is.

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Our default branch is now `main`

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