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| author | Hugo Buddelmeijer <hugo@buddelmeijer.nl> | 2025-10-05 09:50:46 +0200 |
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| committer | Gabriel Wicki <gabriel@erlikon.ch> | 2025-12-23 10:33:24 +0100 |
| commit | 001cd00bcd123cd1eab6ebd1b85afd7b0aa994fa (patch) | |
| tree | 5c4988eeaf28f19ffcfb117f530076dd1709e226 | |
| parent | 7d223c3ce5f7ec6ba788d762e9747d60bfa5b5c1 (diff) | |
doc: Briefly discuss default git branch name.
* doc/contributing.texi (Building from git): Discuss branch name.
Change-Id: I9ddb9318749c7974a8724355c1a6b18a98fa9e8e
Signed-off-by: Gabriel Wicki <gabriel@erlikon.ch>
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/contributing.texi | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/contributing.texi b/doc/contributing.texi index d1e2e63758b..66ea408e243 100644 --- a/doc/contributing.texi +++ b/doc/contributing.texi @@ -134,7 +134,11 @@ C++11 standard. @section Building from Git If you want to hack Guix itself, it is recommended to use the latest -version from the Git repository: +version from the Git repository@footnote{ +Guix uses @code{master} as the default branch name. A proposal in 2025 to +change the default branch name to @code{main} did not reach consensus. +See @uref{https://codeberg.org/guix/guix-consensus-documents/src/branch/main/003-rename-default-branch.md, +Guix Consensus Document 003}.}: @example git clone https://git.guix.gnu.org/guix.git |