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Git 3.0 Retires Master: What Developers Need to Know (jsdevspace.substack.com)
2 points by javatuts 3 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


Also, posh people must refer to small boys as "Young main Billy", you no longer "master a language" you "main" it, and everyone with a Master's degree has to hand it back.

Demented college politics has taken over the world.


Rename main → master:

git branch -m main master git push -u origin master git push origin --delete main


Instead of that, put this in .gitconfig:

[init]

    defaultBranch = master




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