Potential renaming of remote branches on 4th October.

[MrAlex94]

I am planning to rename the remote branches of the Waterfox repository as follows:

master ➡️ classic
gecko68 ➡️ current

current will then become the default branch.

@Peacock365, @hawkeye116477, @laniakea64, @grahamperrin I have tagged you all as you frequently submit pull requests to Waterfox.

Are you all okay with this rename, or is there any potential apprehension towards this change?

[laniakea64]

Fine with me.

[hawkeye116477]

Ok, no problem.

[grahamperrin]

Thanks … reading this alongside https://github.com/MrAlex94/Waterfox/wiki/Versioning-Guidelines#addition-of-channels

I don't know git or GitHub in any depth but FWIW I don't foresee a problem.

AFAIR my old fork of master contains nothing significant, I guess that in due course I can/should delete it (if/when I fork one or both of the new branches).

A quick search with Bing found things such as these, quite old but I guess that least one might be relevant for one of us:

• Rename master branch for both local and remote Git repositories - Stack Overflow
• Rename a local and remote branch in git – Multiple States Knowledge Base (no mention of master)
• How do I rename a local Git branch? - Stack Overflow
• git - What is a tracking branch? - Stack Overflow

[grahamperrin]

Branch changes: git clone, building etc. : waterfox – a couple of questions (this is all new territory for me).

[grahamperrin]

https://github.com/MrAlex94/Waterfox/wiki/Quick-Build#build-configuration

… By default, the build system creates a release build of Waterfox for Windows. …

I guess, that should change to:

… By default, the build system creates a release build of Waterfox Current for Windows. …

Nit (at the same page): https://github.com/MrAlex94/Waterfox/wiki/Quick-Build#mac-os-x-mozconfig an outdated use of org.Waterfoxproject

[grahamperrin]

classic f5c1f61#diff-0d831f716913d38bb39bcf7c35e1be7cR1 will 2019.10 be both the displayed version and the tag?

[MrAlex94]

Yes that's correct.

[grahamperrin]

A minor issue, half-expected:

• external references to e.g. master no longer work.

Only half-expected, because I imagined that GitHub might automatically redirect in cases such as this: