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asking INFRA to change the default remote for 300+ repositories ( gitbox and github? )
- gstein/INFRA says: our limit is (10) repositories. any changes to more than ten must be performed by a script, rather than human hands. the script to perform the change must be provided to Infra to review, then to execute. (iow, Infra will not develop such a script; 300 repositories was chosen by Apache Sling; Infra supports up to 10)
adjusting Jenkins tooling (and potentially Jenkins jobs)
evaluating whether we need to change something in SonarCloud
updating the 'repo' setup
updating documentation
asking everyone to update their local checkouts
needing to rebase (or drop!) existing PRs
In addition to gstein's note above, there is no API to change the the default branch name, so in practice we have no way of performing the change.
Open questions:
- what happens to links once we rename branches? Do they go stale or can we redirect?
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