GitLab->Codeberg migration to offer a way to rename branches? For master->main. #2032

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Hi! When migrating https://codeberg.org/guile-gnutls/guile-gnutls/ from gitlab we wanted to rename the master branch to main. We pushed master as main and then removed the master branch, after the migration, but that resulted in all open merge requests being closed (presumably as invalid). It seems like this may be a common action to perform when migrating old projects, so maybe the migration code could offer this and behave better in this case? You could optionally ask it to rename master to main, and all merge requests that were for master would then be automatically updated to be for main instead. What do you think?

Hi,

Git doesn't have the notion of renaming branches so if you did this using Git then it indeed would not work perfectly. There's a rename button for branches in https://codeberg.org/guile-gnutls/guile-gnutls/branches which will take into account existing pull requests and update them to use the new branch.

Thanks -- I have confirmed that this button does the right thing, and solves my concern. Tested after migrating the OATH Toolkit project from gitlab to codeberg.