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- Years of muscle memory - git itself uses master - a lot of tooling / commands expect master do they now need to be aware of main vs master - I understand the need for some to allow to change the default but just changing it for everyone by default is a step to far

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That tooling is wrong: you could always change the default branch on git.

It may be wrong but it's working so when it stops working that is a quantifiable harm.

Compare that to the expressed but not quantified harm by continuing the status quo.

Once we quantify both, let's talk.

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