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Actually it's in git now. I just got this warning when doing git init . last night.

Eh I realized the warning isn't in english but it basically says master will be changed to main and how I could set a global setting and how I could rename a newly created branch.



> it basically says master will be changed to main

It doesn’t do this. Here is the message:

    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>


You beat me to it posting that output. Still, the 'This default branch name is subject to change' feels a bit awkward.




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