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Re:Gitea – Alternative to GitLab and GitHub by joefreeman on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @05:16AM (#17245543)
Isn't 'origin' (not 'master') the convention you're referring to?
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Re:Gitea – Alternative to GitLab and GitHub by tome on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @05:23AM (#17245574)
Both "origin" and "master" are conventions. They are promoted by the tooling that gives them a sort of default status.
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Re:Gitea – Alternative to GitLab and GitHub by saltedmd5 on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @07:30AM (#17246097)
In the context of the original post, he is referring to origin (the convention for a default remote repository), not master (the convention for a default branch).
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