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don't create extra work for yourself by deleting it (yes, locally) when you're only going to need it again.
The main point of OP's post was that you can delete the master branch locally because using the process laid out above, you would never need a local master branch again.
There is no extra work. It is actually less work. You would only need to run 2 commands instead of 3 and with any pull, there is the possibility of merge conflicts.
normal method
git checkout master
git pull # possible merge conflicts here
git checkout -b my-new-branch
The main point of OP's post was that you can delete the master branch locally because using the process laid out above, you would never need a local master branch again.
There is no extra work. It is actually less work. You would only need to run 2 commands instead of 3 and with any
pull, there is the possibility of merge conflicts.normal method
OP's method