Hi, since quite a long time, I have "renamed" (that is, copied) the "master" branch of the respository user/mv.git/ in git.gentoo.org to "main" (due to respectful terms usage). Since then I have updated only the "main" branch and removed (apparently semi-successful, only) the branch "master". Now I learnt that the default repository name is still "master" and that automation tools like eselect-repository (or also layman) get confused by it, see e.g. https://github.com/vaeth/mv-overlay/issues/31. After the reading, I came to the conclusion that it is not possible for me to do this: Somebody on the remote machine has to do it. I would appreciate if somebody would rename the default branch from "master" to "main" on the default repository (and possibly remove rests from "master" afterward which still occassionally pops up - randomly and completely irreproducible - in https://gitweb.gentoo.org/user/mv.git/).
Try running the following to update the "HEAD" ref. > ssh git@git.gentoo.org symbolic-ref user/mv HEAD refs/heads/main
Thank you very much. That did the trick! (I did not expect that I have permissions to run directly remote git commands via ssh.)
Technically, you aren't directly running git commands via ssh. Rather, you are invoking a gitolite command, which then calls git. You can view a list of available gitolite commands by running: ssh git@git.gentoo.org help
