Why Should I do this?
Bottom Line, the industry is making the shift of naming a project's default branch, "main", from the prior standard, "master". The change has already been happening so the sooner you get all your settings to change the less tricky it will be to make the adjustment later. So here are some steps in order to make the shift.
Changing Your Default Github Branch Name
Head over to account settings, then to the repositories section, and change the default branch name for new branches to main. Done!
Changing your local Git default branch name
As long as your git version 2.28 or above
git --version
Guide to Upgrade Git on Ubuntu
then you can run the following command
git config --global init.defaultBranch main
after this command anytime you make a new repository the initial branch will be called main instead of master.
That's it, you are all set to go!
While we're configuring git...
for bash/zsh you may want to add the following function to your configuration to easily push up to git.
pushy(){
git add .
git commit -m "$1"
git push $2 $3
}
the syntax to use...
pushy "message" remote branch
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