New GitHub repos to have default branches named “main” instead of “master”

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New GitHub repos to have default branches named “main” instead of “master”

GitHub to replace ‘master’ with ‘main’ starting next month | ZDNet.
All new Git repositories on GitHub will be named “main” instead of “master” starting October 1, 2020.

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