GitHub wil change default branch name from 'master' to 'main'
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Re: GitHub wil change default branch name from 'master' to 'main'
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Re: GitHub wil change default branch name from 'master' to 'main'
#3Git init defaults to master, i don't care what it's called but why are they diverging from git defaults?
This will just add yet another inconsistency to confuse newbies as they transition from using github directly to plain git cli... The more cynical side of me would think that may even be intentional.
Re: GitHub wil change default branch name from 'master' to 'main'
#4Even existing projects??? No, that's not going to break tons of stuff and tooling built and running on production around "master" /s
Re: GitHub wil change default branch name from 'master' to 'main'
#5master isn't a special branch right?
Like I know some projects set their default branch as develop.
Also the set upstream command, that let's you have a local branch name different from remote, right?
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#7Awesome.
Let's do this industry wide and never talk about it again.
Re: GitHub wil change default branch name from 'master' to 'main'
#8If you read "master branch" and think of slavery, you have reading comprehension issues that won't be fixed by renaming the branch.
(I know bitkeeper used master/slave terminology for repositories; that is completely irrelevant to git).
Re: GitHub wil change default branch name from 'master' to 'main'
#9I feel like this will break a very significant amount of tooling
Re: GitHub wil change default branch name from 'master' to 'main'
#10Even existing projects??? No, that's not going to break tons of stuff and tooling built and running on production around "master" /s
Has someone said that's what they're doing? Have you seen more information about this change?
Because the link here is just saying "that's a good idea and we're working on it" in response to someone asking about changing the default branch name.
Like default sounds like new project creation time.