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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hello again @ gmx-devs</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">as a lot of time has passed since this
announcement, and as we have the new 2022.1 release out, I'll go
ahead with the change of the default branch on Sunday, 1st of May,
in the afternoon Stockholm time.<br>
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Cheers<br>
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Paul<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 18/03/2022 09:43, Erik Lindahl
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<div dir="ltr">Hi devs,
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<div>We have considered this in the past, but since we were then
in a very active phase of development we postponed it - but
this might be a good period to do it when we're not dashing
against any particular hard deadline with tons of development.</div>
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<div>Several large open source projects have switched from using
master/slave terminology due to the historical origin of the
names, and to move towards a more inclusive culture. One can
of course argue it's merely words, but I prefer to see it the
other way - precisely because it's just words and a very minor
inconvenience for us, I would like us to avoid relying on
words that strongly remind others of oppression and racism.</div>
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<div>Most of these things can be handled through MRs as we go,
but renaming our master branch will require one manual step
for developers tracking the branch. I've pasted the required
commands below. </div>
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<div>My *suggestion* would be that we do this e.g. this Sunday
noon Swedish time (mostly because it should only be 30 seconds
of resync), but we can of course also postpone it if people
prefer to - just let us know in that case.</div>
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<div>Cheers,</div>
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<div>Erik</div>
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<div>Local actions required when master changes to main:</div>
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<div># Switch to the "master" branch:<br>
$ git checkout master<br>
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# Rename it to "main":<br>
$ git branch -m master main<br>
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# Get the latest commits (and branches!) from the remote:<br>
$ git fetch<br>
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# Remove the existing tracking connection with
"origin/master":<br>
$ git branch --unset-upstream<br>
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# Create a new tracking connection with the new "origin/main"
branch:<br>
$ git branch -u origin/main<br>
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<div>Erik Lindahl <<a
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<div>Professor of Biophysics, Dept.
Biochemistry & Biophysics, Stockholm
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<div>Science for Life Laboratory, Box 1031,
17121 Solna, Sweden</div>
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<div>Note: I frequently do email outside
office hours because it is a convenient time
for me to write, but please do not interpret
that as an expectation for you to respond
outside your work hours.<br>
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Paul Bauer, PhD
GROMACS Development Manager
KTH Stockholm, SciLifeLab
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