I have seen dozens of hours spent on debugging issues associated with this switch. One has to wonder how much manpower went into it globally.
Is there some quantitative evidence that this made the world a better place?
Is there some quantitative evidence that this made the world a better place?
They just changed the script, took about 30 seconds. If you had a lot of scripts, then you could always make a master branch and use it instead of main. That would also be pretty quick to fix.
And it wasn't like when Github changed things (or now git itself will be changing) there weren't announcements. You'd have to have been living under a rock to not know about it and be taken by surprise.
Abd if it took Cloudflare 3 hours to find out that a rust process was panicing and crashing, a branch name change in someone's ci/cd is less expected in the chain of probable causes and could take more time to detect.
It's annoying, but you just dig up the new credentials, update the script to point to the right place and move on with your life. I shudder to think of the kind of environment where updating a branch name... not even a domain or IP address... would cause significant turmoil.