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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If you don't have any scripts that rely on branch name it should be pretty trivial actually. But I wouldn't be shocked if you had a few dozen scripts that nobody has looked at in the last century lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

The question actually came up for a new tool to help automate dependency updates. Do we need to change the config to account for the inconsistency?

It turns out we don’t: it correctly uses the default branch, no matter what it’s called. However we had to consider the question. and investigate. It spent someone’s time