• @[email protected]
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          24 months ago

          Imma be honest I pulled that estimate out of my ass lol, but I feel like it was pre-pandemic? which would put it at at least 4 years ago and so holy shit I’m gonna go cry in a corner because it’s been 4 years since the start of the pandemic

      • @throwwyacc
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        14 months ago

        Isn’t this only the case in github? All my repos are based from master, and I would assume that’s because I init on the command line and push up to the remote?

        • @[email protected]
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          14 months ago

          GitLab also changed a few years back. We host our own, so got the update later than people using the service … it was a bit of an argument at first since everyone wanted to stick with the familiar, but laziness won out. Unfortunately, it’s not really justifiable to go back and change legacy projects, so now it’s inconsistent

          • @throwwyacc
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            14 months ago

            If you don’t have any scripts that rely on branch name it should be pretty trivial actually. But I wouldn’t be shocked if you had a few dozen scripts that nobody has looked at in the last century lol

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              The question actually came up for a new tool to help automate dependency updates. Do we need to change the config to account for the inconsistency?

              It turns out we don’t: it correctly uses the default branch, no matter what it’s called. However we had to consider the question. and investigate. It spent someone’s time

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      74 months ago

      Why? I almost always have master/dev/stable.

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        84 months ago

        You should not be pushing into your main/master/whatever branch.

        All the main/master replies completely miss the point, further emphasizing sirsirsalot’s statement.

        • @Hawk
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          24 months ago

          I think I’ll keep doing it. It’s worked fine for the past decade 🤷

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            14 months ago

            It works fine for small projects. I think that with more than 2-3 devs a PR based strategy works better for enforcing review and just makes life easier in general, since you end up with less stuff like force pushes to fix minor things like whitespace errors that break everyone’s local.