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Re:Git 3.0 will use main as the default branch by lucyjojo on Monday November 24, 2025 @06:31AM (#46032929)
you can call your branch whatever name you want. nobody cares, nobody is stopping you.
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Re:Git 3.0 will use main as the default branch by xedrac on Monday November 24, 2025 @09:40PM (#46041820)
That was true before the 3.0 release. Why didn't the people offended by "master" just change the branch name? Because it was never about their own branch names. It was about everyone else's.
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