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When you have to checkout the master branch (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] 7 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I usually create new repos through GitHub or another central repo's system, where it defaults to calling the main branch main. But I did recently create a new repo with my local Git's git init, and had to deal with a master branch on a completely new repo for the first time in a while. It was actually kinda a weird experience.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    If you haven’t already found it, you need to change your global git config (~/.gitconfig):

    git config --global init.defaultBranch main

    (or whatever you want to call it; e.g. daddy would work too)

    For any existing repositories you want to run the following command in the existing repository root (./.git/config):

    git config set init.defaultBranch main

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    Yeah, current company has their internal git server default to master and it was a little odd first time I created a new repo. Luckily all the CI templates can recognize either name so I just switched it.

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