[New-bugs-announce] [issue44074] patchcheck checks against branch "master" not "main"

[Rory Yorke]

New submission from Rory Yorke <rory.yorke at gmail.com>:

I'm probably missing something, but "master" seems hard-coded into patchcheck.py, and I couldn't find any related issues on bpo.

Checked on branch off 42fcad2.

When I ran patchcheck:

    rory at rory-latitude:~/src/cpython$ ./python Tools/scripts/patchcheck.py
    Getting base branch for PR ... origin/master
    Getting the list of files that have been added/changed ... fatal: ambiguous argument 'origin/master': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.
    Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this:
    'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]'
    0 files
    <snip>

The obvious offender is line 81 of Tools/scripts/patchcheck.py:

        base_branch = "master"

Changing this to "main" results in useful output, but I imagine one
would want to check for both "master" and "main" for a while yet?

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components: Demos and Tools
messages: 393244
nosy: roryyorke
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: patchcheck checks against branch "master" not "main"

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