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rename default branch to main #696

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ancho opened this issue May 15, 2021 · 0 comments

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ancho commented May 15, 2021

I think it's about time to change the default branch name from master to a less offensive name, like main.

https://sfconservancy.org/news/2020/jun/23/gitbranchname/

git already prints a warning if you try to init a project by that name.

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2021/03/10/new-git-default-branch-name/
https://github.blog/changelog/2020-10-01-the-default-branch-for-newly-created-repositories-is-now-main/

Some more background and documentation on how to rename the default branch at github: https://github.com/github/renaming

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