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		naebother on March 14, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Gitlab default branch name changes to main If we must have a struggle-session on this and rename to appease the performative gods, why not just call the default branch, you know, "default"?

benibela on March 14, 2021 [–]

Yes, this is such a silly Git problem

In Mercurial it is always "default", and in SVN one used to use "trunk"

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