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How to change git's default branch

Ensure git is at least version 2.28.0

You need a recent enough version of git. If you're on ubuntu/debian, this will get the most recent stable version.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa
sudo apt-get update

Note: If you can't install these on a vanilla system (EG: a clean docker container) it's probably because you need the following packages installed first:

• software-properties-common
  • This is for the add-apt-repository command
• gnupg2
  • This is for the more modern gpg command that add-apt-repository will call on your behalf to install Git's trusted GPG repo key

Global configuration for new repos

git config --global init.defaultBranch main

To update existing repos

git branch -m master main
git push origin :master main
git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/main main