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by bbsimonbb 1020 days ago
Tis a little disconcerting to see master called master. I thought we'd all changed that?
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I go out of my way to change the default tech companies try to push on you, back to 'master'. I was migrating a team at work from SVN to git and the project lead was telling me the trunk branch should be called 'main' because that's the standard. I explained this is American nonsense and git has always used master, but because the Google algorithm wouldn't find any evidence except articles from the looney American left, I ended up having to show him on the CLI (which of course he never used before) in a bare new project to prove it.

Thankfully our hatred of American cultural imperialism united us and he agreed on using master. Three cheers for Ramirez!

The default branch name in Git is still master. Regardless, this is an article originally published in 2010.