[disgruntledphd2]

The irritating thing about that is that the software git defaults to master, while GitHub defaults to main. I had a lot of confusion a few months back about that.

[two_cents]

You can set default branch name for your repositories in settings. Much more straightforward than in GitLab in my opinion.

[disgruntledphd2]

Yeah, I know that now but this hit me under time pressure and caused me muh confusion for a while.