git: b9c2beb17b - main - committer-guide: master->main rename in an example or two
Warner Losh
imp at FreeBSD.org
Mon Apr 26 16:22:00 UTC 2021
The branch main has been updated by imp:
URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/doc/commit/?id=b9c2beb17bbb78591ccad1078705f67fe48e6055
commit b9c2beb17bbb78591ccad1078705f67fe48e6055
Author: Warner Losh <imp at FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2021-04-26 16:11:32 +0000
Commit: Warner Losh <imp at FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2021-04-26 16:20:16 +0000
committer-guide: master->main rename in an example or two
These instances of master or freebsd/master which should really be
main. I did these examples against the old github mirror.
Sponsored by: Netflix
---
documentation/content/en/articles/committers-guide/_index.adoc | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/documentation/content/en/articles/committers-guide/_index.adoc b/documentation/content/en/articles/committers-guide/_index.adoc
index e47a0ddff2..1799f8d47e 100644
--- a/documentation/content/en/articles/committers-guide/_index.adoc
+++ b/documentation/content/en/articles/committers-guide/_index.adoc
@@ -435,11 +435,11 @@ The good version will be the last one you checked out.
If you want to know the last version you checked out, you should use 'git reflog':
[source,shell]
....
-5ef0bd68b515 (HEAD -> master, freebsd/master, freebsd/HEAD) HEAD@{0}: pull --ff-only: Fast-forward
-a8163e165c5b (upstream/master) HEAD@{1}: checkout: moving from b6fb97efb682994f59b21fe4efb3fcfc0e5b9eeb to master
+5ef0bd68b515 (HEAD -> main, freebsd/main, freebsd/HEAD) HEAD@{0}: pull --ff-only: Fast-forward
+a8163e165c5b (upstream/main) HEAD@{1}: checkout: moving from b6fb97efb682994f59b21fe4efb3fcfc0e5b9eeb to main
...
....
-shows me moving the working tree to the master branch (a816...) and then updating from upstream (to 5ef0...).
+shows me moving the working tree to the main branch (a816...) and then updating from upstream (to 5ef0...).
In this case, bad would be HEAD (or 5rf0bd68) and good would be a8163e165.
As you can see from the output, HEAD@{1} also often works, but isn't foolproof if you have done other things to your Git tree after updating, but before you discover the need to bisect.
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