Rename master branch to main

There’s a recent movement to replace “master” with a word that is descriptive while being absent the racist history of master & slave. This isn’t a new idea, however it’s gaining momentum on Twitter given the groundswell of action in the United States and globally after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis two weeks ago. I stand with the protestors. 🖤

The language we use matters. Changing this for nock may be a minor pain but I think it’s mostly one-time and regardless seems well worth it.

There’s a tool here we could use for the PRs: https://github.com/ethomson/retarget_prs

@gr2m do you know if there’s any problem getting semantic-release to work with a default branch name that is not master?

[gr2m]

Let’s wait until we release nock 13, it would cause further merge conflicts and I’d need to make the edits in both master and beta

[gr2m]

note to self: we need to configure the branches setting for semantic-release. It is not looking for main or latest by default, only for master. It’s something I’ll try to change within semantic-release, but that will take a while.

See https://semantic-release.gitbook.io/semantic-release/usage/configuration#branches