Re: [PATCH 00/28] Use main as default branch name

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 18, 2020, 02:40 UTC
Message-ID: <20201118024028.GE360414@google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20201118012544.GC650959@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King wrote:

> IMHO, though, all of this is orthogonal to question of what the default
> is. Unless we are thinking the basename thing would work as a default,
> but I don't think that resolves any of the backwards-compatibility
> concerns.

If we think it would make sense as the *eventual* default, we could use

	[init]
		defaultBranchName =

(i.e., an empty string) to request it early.

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