Upcoming renaming of master -> main branch planned for late August 2021
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@johnkslang @dneto0 @raunraun @HansKristian-Work and other interested parties: heads-up that we propose to rename the default branch of this repository to 'main' in late August 2021, following emerging Khronos & github practice (for Khronos members, see internal khronos-general issue 106). This will have very little impact, although if you have a checked-out repository clone, you may want to follow the simple instructions github will pop up on the repository webpage describing how to do the same locally.
If there is a concern about this, please raise it here by 2021-08-23.
What will happen to all the links in the README index section that contain paths like ".../blob/master/..."? Will they continue to work, or should they all also change to ".../blob/main/..." at the same time?
Github rewrites them for us! For example if you go to a repo where this has already been done, like https://github.com/KhronosGroup/SPIR-Registry/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md, the page will come up with 'master' rewritten to 'main'. That said it is still advisable to change all deep links from 'master' to 'main' eventually, but there's no urgency to it.
Default branch has been renamed. I made the edits to the previewer links in README.md in #126, which should be accepted soon. I should add per #124 (comment) that github rewrites the README.md master links internally, but doesn't rewrite the link URLs viewable in the browser - so not quite as nice as what it does for the link in my example above, but it still gets to the right place.