From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: generating a git repo: main instead of master
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2022 09:33:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y3CrzM13qfmy6GFw@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87leofe0xe.fsf@mat.ucm.es>
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On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 09:03:25AM +0100, Uwe Brauer wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> It seems that more and more public repositories expect that the principal git branch should be «main» instead of «master»
>
>
> However, the following steps in emacs lead to a git repository, where the principal branch is master instead of main.
You can change the master branch name to main with
git branch -m master main
(think "move"). It is polite to coordinate with other people who
might have cloned your repo :)
To change the default at git init
git config --global init.defaultBranch main
(git >= 2.28)
Cheers
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-13 8:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-13 8:03 generating a git repo: main instead of master Uwe Brauer
2022-11-13 8:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-13 8:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-13 8:38 ` Uwe Brauer
2022-11-13 9:27 ` tomas
2022-11-13 14:50 ` Björn Bidar
2022-11-13 8:26 ` Peter Hardy
2022-11-13 8:32 ` Teemu Likonen
2022-11-13 8:33 ` tomas [this message]
2022-11-13 8:43 ` Uwe Brauer
2022-11-13 9:22 ` tomas
2022-11-13 9:31 ` Jean Louis
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