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Comment by hu3 | Hacker News Reader

Related: git, GitHub and GitLab switched the default branch name from master to main.

With the consequence that the default branch now differs between locally and remotely initiated repositories

For old versions of git, yes.

However, recent versions come with "main" as the default.

And since 2.28, released more than a year ago, we have the option to change the default:

    git config --global init.defaultBranch main