- It tries its best to default to
master. - it always creates a
masterbranch. - it throws a bunch of errors when trying to push to
main. - I always have to do some random fiddling to make it work with the
mainbranch, but at least once I mademasterthe main one instead. - it ruined a few releases of mine, by publishing the older branch.
- apparently this is very abnormal, and no one saw things like this.
- every time I initialize a new repo, I make sure to run a
git cloneto initialize it on my PC, which is calledmain, then it defaults tomasterfor no known reason. - checked the
.gitconfigfile, and nothing unusual.
I don’t know the incantation offhand, but certainly there is a way to tell your git to treat ‘main’ as the default.
However, ‘master’ actually was the historical default; ‘main’ is a newer name (search online if you are interested in why some repos and git hosting providers switched to use ‘main’ … warning, opinions differ on whether said reasons were considered sensible or not).