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Update GitHub default branch name for version_dev argument
Description of the desired feature
After GitHub changed the default branch name from master
to main
, we should update Pooch docstrings to include main
as one of the best choices for the version_dev
argument, like in:
https://github.com/fatiando/pooch/blob/1f60c6ffe143a233bf15b5d1d1ac5acc648504ba/pooch/core.py#L282-L285
We could deprecate plan to change the default value for version_dev
to main
after Pooch v2.0.0 and add a Deprecation Warning meanwhile.
Are you willing to help implement and maintain this feature? Yes, but I would let anyone to tackle it if they want!
Since "master"
is the default value for the version_dev
parameter in pooch.create
, changing it to "main"
would break backward compatibility. I think this issue should be targeted for next major release of Pooch.