Please rename master branch to main

[ssbarnea]

Description of the feature / enhancement.

Apparently schemastore is one of the last project I usually contribute to which did not make the rename of master to main, so please do the rename.

As GitHub is quite good with redirects, I doubt this move would create any problems.

Are you making a PR for this?

No, someone else must create the PR.

[marcusrbrown]

Seconded, please rename the master branch to main.

[hyperupcall]

I'm for this as well. GitHub is great with redirects, but if extra precaution is wanted, we can always have master be a separate, non-default branch for compatibility for a certain amount of time.

[ssbarnea]

@hyperupcall In fact keeping a master branch would be worse because it will break users. When the branch is renamed on github, they add an alias for compatibility. If you create a branch named master, that no longer works and you have a source of confusion.

[hyperupcall]

I see - thank you. Then it would be better to do a straight rename :)

[rdwz]

Both Conservancy and the Git project are aware that the initial branch name, ‘master’, is offensive to some people and we empathize with those hurt by the use of that term.

https://sfconservancy.org/news/2020/jun/23/gitbranchname/

Renaming a branch will:

Re-target any open pull requests
Update any draft releases based on the branch
Move any branch protection rules that explicitly reference the old name
Update the branch used to build GitHub Pages, if applicable
Show a notice to repository contributors, maintainers, and admins on the repository homepage with instructions to update local copies of the repository
Show a notice to contributors who git push to the old branch
Redirect web requests for the old branch name to the new branch name
Return a "Moved Permanently" response in API requests for the old branch name

https://github.com/github/renaming

[okineadev]

I agree with that