Rename "master" branch to "main"

[YakDriver]

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Description

GitHub is working on replacing the term "master" on its service with a neutral term like "main" to avoid any unnecessary references to slavery, its CEO said on Friday.

I recommend renaming the default branch in the AWS provider GitHub repo to main so as to avoid using the term master.

This will not affect resources but will have wide implications on existing forks, CI configuration, and documentation.

New or Affected Resource(s)

None

Potential Terraform Configuration

References

• https://www.zdnet.com/article/github-to-replace-master-with-alternative-term-to-avoid-slavery-references/
• https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/rename-master-branch-to-main/11831
• https://medium.com/faun/git-step-by-step-renaming-a-master-branch-to-main-16390ca7577b
• Internal: ENGSRV-037
• Internal: PDCT-002

[bflad]

This is now explicitly part of a company-wide initiative, https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/inclusive-language-changes/12797, so removing the proposal label. The maintainers team will provide additional information on timing when it has been decided.

[bflad]

Context: https://github.blog/changelog/2020-10-01-the-default-branch-for-newly-created-repositories-is-now-main/

main is now the default choice when creating GitHub repositories and it sounds like they will be releasing tooling by end of year to cover all the various scenarios of doing the migration. Depending on the timing of that tooling and our migration, we can either leverage GitHub's tooling or some various (currently internal only) tooling.

[breathingdust]

This has now been completed 🎉. To update your local copy run:

git branch -m master main
git fetch origin
git branch -u origin/main main

[ghost]

This has been released in version 3.26.0 of the Terraform AWS provider. Please see the Terraform documentation on provider versioning or reach out if you need any assistance upgrading.

For further feature requests or bug reports with this functionality, please create a new GitHub issue following the template for triage. Thanks!

[ghost]

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