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Guidance for changing the default branch name for GitHub repositories
16 mentions on Hacker News by 16 people: 6 stories, 10 comments · first 2020-07-17 · latest 2025-11-24
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…branch name is just a pointer to a commit. Renaming that pointer is relatively seamless on GitHub ( https://github.com/github/renaming?tab=readme-ov-file#rename... ). Also, git 3.0 isn’t forcing this change on existing repos, just new ones…
comment by testdelacc1 · 2025-11-24 · in Git 3.0 will use main as the default branch -
https://github.com/github/renaming https://www.theserverside.com/feature/Why-GitHub-renamed-its... They did stuff. Plenty qualifies as "removing". (And I didn't say they reached out and changed the entire world.) And unlike master/slave,…
comment by Dylan16807 · 2025-02-05 · in Words flagged in search of current NSF awards -
…just part of a broader trend to stop using ‘master’ due to some people finding that term offensive. https://github.com/github/renaming
comment by bluesnowmonkey · 2023-05-23 · in GirlfriendGPT – OSS AI Companion -
…by exactly this type of initiative, more successfully in some places rather than others. https://github.com/github/renaming https://sfconservancy.org/news/2020/jun/23/gitbranchname/
comment by tsimionescu · 2022-12-20 · in Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative -
…When master branch is renamed to main, GitHub redirects any old links. https://github.com/github/renaming#renaming-existing-branche...
comment by lozenge · 2022-06-22 · in Next-generation AI models -
…//sfconservancy.org/news/2020/jun/23/gitbranchname/ (this is the rationale linked to by github[1]) 1: https://github.com/github/renaming
comment by sequoia · 2021-03-17 · in GitHub, fuck your name change -
…you want to criticize GitHub for their lack of action in other areas, criticize that instead. [1] https://github.com/github/renaming#renaming-existing-branche...
comment by mythz · 2021-03-17 · in GitHub, fuck your name change -
…opt in. It's easy to change and it's nice that old branch histories will do directs to new branch. https://github.com/github/renaming
comment by nikivi · 2020-10-09 · in Ask HN: Can't the GitHub switch from “master” to “main” be opt in? -
…back in 2014 in connection with the Ferguson unrest and the killing of Michael Brown. Source: https://github.com/github/renaming
comment by sharken · 2020-08-02 · in Facebook hate-speech boycott had little effect on revenue -
…one across all their repos is `main`, and that's what they'll be going with themselves. (Source: https://github.com/github/renaming )
comment by apetresc · 2020-07-27 · in Highlights from Git 2.28