Git Tips: Default the main branch

Branch on new git repo locally

The default branch for git is set to master.

You can change that behavior by changing a global setting for the default branch.

This will help keep the main branch as the default for newly created repositories.

git config --global init.defaultBranch main

git branch -m master main
git fetch origin
git branch -u origin/main main
git remote set-head origin -a

While creating a new repository on the remote

This is primarily a solved problem on remotely created repositories.

GitHub: The default branch name for new repositories is now main.

GitLab: If no custom default branch name is set at any level, GitLab defaults to main.