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Use 'main' as the name for the initial branch

Open asarkar opened this issue 3 months ago • 7 comments

actions/checkout@v5

Initializing the repository
  /usr/bin/git init /home/runner/work/repo/repo
  hint: Using 'master' as the name for the initial branch. This default branch name
  hint: is subject to change. To configure the initial branch name to use in all
  hint: of your new repositories, which will suppress this warning, call:
  hint:
  hint: 	git config --global init.defaultBranch <name>
  hint:
  hint: Names commonly chosen instead of 'master' are 'main', 'trunk' and
  hint: 'development'. The just-created branch can be renamed via this command:
  hint:
  hint: 	git branch -m <name>
  hint:
  hint: Disable this message with "git config set advice.defaultBranchName false"
  Initialized empty Git repository in /home/runner/work/repo/repo/.git/
  /usr/bin/git remote add origin https://github.com/user/repo

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Use main as branch name.

asarkar avatar Sep 27 '25 08:09 asarkar

Can i assign manually choose? GMCA

mostakinur1998-hub avatar Sep 29 '25 05:09 mostakinur1998-hub

Can i assign manually choose? GMCA

Who is manually choosing branch name in a CI build, and how? Also, why?

asarkar avatar Sep 29 '25 07:09 asarkar

wafid.com

mostakinur1998-hub avatar Sep 29 '25 07:09 mostakinur1998-hub

Sorry, what do you mean?

salmanmkc avatar Oct 18 '25 10:10 salmanmkc

@salmanmkc are you asking me?

asarkar avatar Oct 18 '25 10:10 asarkar

Yes

salmanmkc avatar Oct 18 '25 11:10 salmanmkc

Assuming you’re asking what this ticket is for, I’m asking if the action can be configured such that the warning shown above doesn’t appear. It seems to me that the warning is about a conventional name not chosen for the checkout branch.

asarkar avatar Oct 18 '25 11:10 asarkar