FYI github's repo creation tool now defaults to main. A lot of orgs use this tool because they will also use repo templates. I know git, the program, is still defaulting to master.

What is this tool? I always used github by pushing my locally-created repos to it, and this procedure still creates a "master" branch. I was not aware that there are other ways to use github, thus my surprise at the exaltation. I guess people who still use "plain git" are unaffected by the renaming of the default branch in github (whatever that means).

1. Start the repository by creating new file: it opens a github text editor. I never used this option (what kind of savage uses github's text editor???), but to be fair it creates a default branch named "main"

2. Create a new repository from the command line: run git init, etc. You get to choose the branch name, then push it to github.

3. Push your existing local repository to github. It will get whateber branch name it already had, probably "master".

So the only people affected by the change are those who use github's text editor and chose the first option. I guess not many people do that? For the most common options you get to chose the name of the branch, that by default is "master" (not that there's anything wrong with that).

Also we can argue until the cows come home about how little effort is actually involved. It could literally be a single click and it's still all still by-the-by. This is an empty virtue signal doing nothing - repeat nothing - to help the inclusion of minorities.