The develop branch will additionally acquire all of the master branch’s new files; The develop stream’s branch point will change. It will appear as though the develop branch split after commit E on ...

Starting October 1, 2020 all “master branches” will be called “main branches.” For developers who have been knee-deep in Git and GitHub for years, this change will take some time to get ...

In Git, no branch is special. After a developer installs Git, it creates a single branch named master which branches can be created and updated. But Git’s master branch isn’t special. It can be ...

"On Oct. 1, 2020, any new repositories you create will use main as the default branch, instead of master," the company said. Existing repositories that have "master" set as the default branch will ...

GitHub on July 27 released notes for Git 2.28, confirming the name change from master to main. GitHub's Twitter page posted that it stands with the black community and the fight against racism.

GitHub is working on replacing the term "master" on its service with a neutral term like "main" to avoid any unnecessary references to slavery, its CEO said on Friday. The code-hosting portal is ...

Microsoft-owned GitHub is changing its default project names to avoid slavery-related terms. ... who said she would be happy to rename the "master" branch of the project to "main".