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Why is my git on Windows is weird with main branches (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world to c/learn_programming@programming.dev
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  • It tries its best to default to master.
  • it always creates a master branch.
  • it throws a bunch of errors when trying to push to main.
  • I always have to do some random fiddling to make it work with the main branch, but at least once I made master the main one instead.
  • it ruined a few releases of mine, by publishing the older branch.
  • apparently this is very abnormal, and no one saw things like this.
  • every time I initialize a new repo, I make sure to run a git clone to initialize it on my PC, which is called main, then it defaults to master for no known reason.
  • checked the .gitconfig file, and nothing unusual.
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[–] p_consti@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Check that you're on a new enough version where main is actually the default, not master.

Also, there's no reason why you can't just switch branches? Just create a main branch from whereever (either right at the start after init or at some later point) and push it, then delete master.

Also literally thr first result when googling how to set the default branch name: https://superuser.com/questions/1419613/change-git-init-default-branch-name set it to main manually if it won't do it automatically

E: regarding the errors when pushing to main, I assume you tried git push origin main while on the master branch. That doesn't work because git only wants to push to same-name branches. However, you can do git push origin master:main, which means "push this branch master to the remote origin and rename it to main".