Re: 9.5 branching?

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> The postgresql repository has branched of the REL9_5_STABLE branch.  For
> the time being, the "9.5" branch in the messages repository is still master.
>
> I was wondering, would it be easier if we also branched off
> REL9_5_STABLE in messages right now?
>
> We could just ignore the master branch for now and later on fork it off
> REL9_5_STABLE (instead of the other way around, which is what we'd
> usually do).

I don't really care either way because by now I'm used to the way we do
things, but I have the recollection that having "master" not follow
upstream's master is confusing.  However, I'm not sure that it makes a
lot of sense to branch "master" from REL9_5_STABLE.

> (We could also blow away the master branch altogether and recreate it
> later, but I don't know what that would do to new checkouts in the
> meantime, because we don't have access to set the default branch on the
> git.postgresql.org hosting.)

I think it might be useful to offer a way to change the default branch
using the web interface.  Let me ask the sysadmin dudes.  What would be
the git command to change the default branch?

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