Many communities, both on GitHub and in the wider Git community, are considering renaming the default branch name of their repository from `master`. - On GitHub, `main` has been the default branch name for new repositories since October 2020. - GitLab has a release planned for this month which will do the same. - Most repositories in the W3 organization use `main` <details> 850 W3C Repositories on 2021-04-20 | Name | Count | | --------------- | -----:| | `main` | 271 | | `master` | 266 | | `gh-pages` | 191 | | other | 4 | | archived status | 118 | </details>