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Consider changing the name of our primary branch from master to main #233

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@ericcarraway

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

850 W3C Repositories on 2021-04-20

Name Count
main 271
master 266
gh-pages 191
other 4
archived status 118

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