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gamblor956 on March 17, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: GitHub, fuck your name change

You are not required to change the name of your main branch on existing repos.

If you really want to, you can use "master" as the name on your new repos. You simply have to manually type that in now.

josteink on March 17, 2021 [–]

So it’s not really a forced change. It’s a just soft change. Soft like the ocean is soft[1].

Glad we settled that one!

[1] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheCulture

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