Change the default branch of this repo from master to main?

[spacewander]

@tfendin suggests that we can switch the default branch of this repo from master to main: https://github.com/tj/git-extras/pull/946#issuecomment-1003358562

@tj @hemanth What do you think about this?

[hemanth]

Given that GH has made it easy to make that change, it would be a 👍 from me 🤓

[ldo]

As somebody with a Masters degree, I wonder what the point of this is ...

[hyperupcall]

It seems this and this page has some more information on how to do it without breaking things.

As someone who has been contributing to this repository for a while, this change is very welcome. Besides improving the terminology to be more inclusive, changing to main brings us more in line with the rest of the developer evosystem and makes it much less inconvenient to make changes - since the proliferation of main, most people's muscle memory, and many people's git aliases, etc. are based off of main.

@spacewander What do you think about revisiting this? The existing consensus seems to suggest a switch would be satisfactory

[spacewander]

@tj Would you help to change the default branch of this project? We don't have access to this project's setting.

[spacewander]

After discussing with @tj via email these days, we have finally changed the default branch to main. I have submitted a PR to adapt this change: https://github.com/tj/git-extras/pull/1092

[hyperupcall]

great!