Configuring default branch name
There is one last thing to configure before we can start working with Git: the default branch name.
In the past, the default used to be master. However, in 2020, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and other platforms started to change the default name to main. This was done to make the language of Git more inclusive and to remove any connotations of slavery from otherwise neutral terms.
Let's set the default branch name to main in our Git configuration to avoid any confusion with the GitHub's defaults in the future.
git config --global init.defaultBranch mainSet your default branch name to main using the command above.
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