June 2020

Make main the default git branch

Submitted by michael on Tue, 06/23/2020 - 13:51

New Repository

Git will use a user-defined template when starting a new git repository, so configure that template to use "main" instead of the default.

git config --global init.templateDir '~/.git-template'
cp -r /usr/local/share/git-core/templates ~/.git-template
echo 'ref: refs/heads/main' > ~/.git-template/HEAD

From that point on git init will use the template with the HEAD pointing to main.

Existing Repository

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