Is there a way to change the edit branch away from master?

[xyeLz]

I apologize if I missed something in the documentation but when I select the pen to edit my page, it always tries to bring me to the "master" branch (which does not exist as we only have a main branch) which leads us to a GitHub 404 error page. Did I miss something here or has this not been addressed yet? Thanks!

[ktomk]

If you use a non-standard (mind the time of release) default branch on Github, you can not rely on the "few known hosts (specifically GitHub, Bitbucket and GitLab) [that] the edit_uri is derived from the 'repo_url'" (ref) and you have to set the edit_uri yourself.

This is also true if you use a non-standard "docs" directory.

repo_name: ktomk/pipelines
repo_url: https://github.com/ktomk/pipelines
edit_uri: ./edit/master

(Example: non-standard documentation root in a Github repository, docs folder is project root and default branch is master)

Feel free to adopt the values according to your repository, the edit_uri might be something like ./edit/main/docs in your case.

(comment against mkdocs 1.1.2)

[oprypin]

That answer is correct.
Myself, I use this for GitHub, as I find it less intrusive:

edit_uri: blob/master/docs/

and indeed you can set any other branch than master