[qustion] is this a normal behaviour?

[avma]

Hi,
I followed your installation instructions, when checking the ~/.zgenom folders I'm getting this:

some sub folders has no names only underscores, is that normal? am i missing something here?
Thank you

[jandamm]

This is the expected behavior when you haven't specified a branch name.

zgenom load zsh-users/zsh-completions will create $ZGEN_DIR/zsh-users/zsh-completions/___.
zgenom load zsh-users/zsh-completions . master will create $ZGEN_DIR/zsh-users/zsh-completions/master.

Please have a look here

Do you have any other questions?

[avma]

Grate, thanks Jan,
...Just a thought, would in not be better if you make you code go for master as default or, just halt and prompt the user for a branch?

[jandamm]

Every repo hosted on a git server has a HEAD (default branch). For years this was master and was changed (at least for new repos) to main. This branch can also be changed.

Hardcoding the branch to master wouldn't work for every repo since there are some repos which are using main instead of master. This would create issues.
Asking the user for a branch wouldn't make sense either since it can be provided if needed. (zgenom load <repo> . master)

If no branch is specified the default branch of the repository is used. Taking zsh-users/zsh-completions as an example, zgenom would use the branch master. If the branch gets renamed to main (or any other name) in the future you will continue to get updates.
To be clear the branch isn't ___ it is just a placeholder for zgenom to know that the user hasn't used a specific branch.

If you want to hardcode master please use zgenom load <repo> . master instead of zgenom load <repo>.

[avma]

Thank you Jan, This perfectly clarifies it.