Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > Thanks for writing this out (I'm still catching up on list email after a > vacation, so I missed the earlier thread). It really cemented for me > that "main" is better than "default". In any case, it makes sense to use separate words for the concept ("default" --- as in "the name given to the first branch created in the repository by default") and the actualy value chosen for the entity (master or main in this case). The statement: I configure in ~/.gitconfig that the default branch name for all my repositories to be 'main' is much easier to read than the last 'main' replaced with 'default'.