Antoine Beaupré wrote: > Before people start throwing things (like `git push origin oldref:newref > :oldref`) at me, consider that I've been beating my head against this > for a while, and everywhere I look basically suggests this: > > git branch -m to_branch > git push origin from_branch:to_branch :from_branch Better: git push origin from_branch:to_branch :from_branch && git branch -m from_branch to_branch > I wrote this primarily with the "master to main" migration, because a > bunch of projects (including mine) are suddenly, actually migrating > their main branch from master to main. Personnally, it's because I'm > tired of being yelled "master" from my shell prompt all the time, but > naturally, I guess opinions on the matter vary. Just tell git to stop bothering you: git config --global init.defaultbranch master -- Felipe Contreras
