On Thu, 13 May 2021 at 21:25, Benjamin Gilbert <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Deleting the branch normally affects people who are in the project's
> developer community and pay attention to its announcements.  Those folks
> can then simply update their local checkouts and move on with their lives.
> Everyone else just clones the default branch and maybe checks out a
> particular tag or commit before building a package.  That workflow still
> works after the default branch is renamed.  Bitbake's additional checks are
> unusual, and impose a long-term compatibility constraint on upstream
> projects that they didn't sign up for.
>

They're not useless though. As a layer maintainer I absolutely want those
checks, as I want to be aware of any branch configuration changes upstream,
and to ensure I'm not accepting a change in source revision that points to
an unattached commit, or one from a branch that's not supposed to be used
at all.

Alex
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