Johannes Sixt <j6t@xxxxxxxx> writes: > Am 09.06.20 um 18:02 schrieb Junio C Hamano: >> so it might be the matter of teaching "git >> init" (it uses 'master' by default) and "git clone" (it tries to use >> the name of the branch the HEAD at origin points at,... > > Don't forget the special treatment of "master" in fmt-merge-msg.c that > skips the " into 'foo'" part of "Merge branch 'bar'". Yup, that certainly needs to be taken into consideration in this topic. There may be more that we are forgetting.