Handling default git branch names

[selectric401]

When setting up a new notebook and adding a remote, it may be useful to be able to specify the branch name as part of nb remote set, or to be able to set a default in the configuration somewhere. I've set up my local Git server to default to main instead of master, and GitHub has changed its default for new repositories too. This can be worked around with by running nb git branch -m master main after setting the remote, but a notebook-level or global-level configuration option would probably help as more Git repos default to main.

[nertzy]

I just experienced the same thing.

In my case, I also needed to run:

$ nb git push origin main

[xwmx]

I'm working my way toward addressing this. In the meantime I've been keeping this in mind over the past few months and nb should be branch-name agnostic, though as you noticed there isn't a lot of branch handling logic yet.

For reference, nb uses git init when creating notebooks, so the default branch name should reflect the setting in git config --global init.defaultBranch. When syncing, nb just uses the the current branch name.

[bscott]

if your using nb sync on a remote that your adding for an existing notebook that already exists, nb still complains that it can't find the master branch. keep having to use nb git branch -m master main