Hello, Over the past few days or so, there has been significant discussion [1] and patches [2] about changing the name of the default branch away from 'master' and towards something else. Concurrently with this, GitHub, GitLab [3], and Bitbucket are working together in order to make a similar change across our respective products. Because of this, we are met with a bit of a challenge: we would like to make these changes before the next version(s) (and so need to settle on a new default branch name), but we also want to avoid a situation where the community is fractured (eg., GitHub uses 'main', Git uses 'default', etc). A related question is whether or not we plan to change the default value of 'core.defaultBranchName' at all (once Johannes' patches land, of course). That seems to be the intent in [4], but forming consensus around this would be good, too. So, I would like to form some consensus here as to what the new name should be, if that is something we're committing to doing. This way, we can make this decision now (and allow hosts to make their corresponding changes) while still giving us on the list some time to work on the implementation across one or more release boundaries. My interpretation thus far is that 'main' is the planned replacement for 'master'. Consensus seems to have formed around this name [5], but if that's incorrect--or there are yet-unvoiced opinions that you would like to share--now is the time to discuss further. Thanks, Taylor [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/CAOAHyQwyXC1Z3v7BZAC+Bq6JBaM7FvBenA-1fcqeDV==apdWDg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ [2]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/pull.656.v2.git.1592225416.gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx/ [3]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/222204 [4]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.2006111610000.56@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ [5]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.2006091126540.482@ZVAVAG-DN14RQO.ybpnyqbznva/
