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Mon, 9 Feb 2026 12:08:17 -0500 (EST) From: Junio C Hamano To: Ben Knoble Cc: Ryan Johnson , git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: git branch behavior after git init needs fixing In-Reply-To: (Ben Knoble's message of "Mon, 9 Feb 2026 09:54:25 -0500") References: Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2026 09:08:15 -0800 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Ben Knoble writes: > You are probably looking for init.defaultBranch and the 3.0 > breaking changes plan (which will make main the default). In other words, run $ git config --global init.defaultbranch main just once to live in the future? That sounds like a sensible suggestion to me.