Rename master to main

[genehack]

pathogen-repo-guide and various other "modern" repos use main.

Using main also aligns with currently recognized best practices in the broader open source community.

From talking to folks, I understand this has caused some degree of disruption due to various places assuming master; I've also been cautioned to use @ as a branch label to ameliorate this.

Opening this as a place for discussion on what direction to go with yellow-fever.

[joverlee521]

+1 for switch to main, especially before more people touch yellow-fever

[victorlin]

Lots of discussion in an old Slack thread. I'm +1 for switching across all repos given shared agreement on a process to minimize/address disruptions.

[j23414]

+1 for switch to main

[genehack]

Lots of discussion in an old Slack thread.

Thanks for that pointer.

I'm +1 for switching across all repos given shared agreement on a process to minimize/address disruptions.

Given the above discussion, I am not proposing or volunteering to undertake "across all repos" at this time 😁 I am gonna proceed with yellow-fever once I get the initial cleanup stuff merged, and I will default to main for any new repos I create.

I'm also willing to track this overall and try to roll it out across more repos as time goes on.

[genehack]

So, wrinkle: probably the best way to do this is renaming with the GitHub UI (because then there will be a redirect for any old URLs that point to master over to main) ...but that requires admin access to the repo, which I don't have.

Option nextstrain/private#1: somebody who has admin, do the work (I can still handle making the tickets and cleaning up any other master usage in workflows, etc)
Option nextstrain/private#2: give me repo admin on ...many repos, and then I do all the work

No strong preference, just trying to keep this work moving forward…

[j23414]

I vote #2 but no strong preference, I think only @jameshadfield has admin for yellow-fever.

[huddlej]

@genehack Reposting from Slack, but I just updated your role in the Nextstrain organization to "Owner", so you should be able to choose Option 2 now.

[genehack]

Renamed.

Note that any existing checkouts will need to run the following commands in the working copy:

git branch -m master main
git fetch origin
git branch -u origin/main main
git remote set-head origin -a