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Jonnax on June 14, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: GitHub wil change default branch name from 'master...

master isn't a special branch right?

Like I know some projects set their default branch as develop.

Also the set upstream command, that let's you have a local branch name different from remote, right?

jjuhl on June 14, 2020 [–]

"master" is a special name. For one, it's the branch that git will initially check out after you clone a repository.

kcolford on June 14, 2020 | [–]

No, git checks out whatever branch the remote points HEAD to

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