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Consider renaming branch master to main (W3C Manual of Style) #137

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As recommended in https://www.w3.org/guide/manual-of-style/#inclusive consider renaming the master branch in this repository to main.

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    on Oct 14, 2025
  2. riannella commented on Oct 14, 2025

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    I assume that will not break anything ????

  3. csarven commented on Oct 14, 2025

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    I presume that it will if only the branch is renamed. There is a guide available from https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/configuring-branches-and-merges-in-your-repository/managing-branches-in-your-repository/renaming-a-branch

    may need to look into:

    • GitHub Pages work properly (based off master and renaming may automagically work itself out)
    • Updating specific references to URLs with master (but this may be automagically redirected)
    • ...
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