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Shauna Gordon

Or, we can just do

git config --global init.defaultBranch main

once, and never have to worry about it again.

We also don't have to worry about alias syntax, which is terminal-type-dependent, and can include it in provisioning/dotfiles repos and it works regardless of the person's system. :)

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Jakub Narębski

This option was, as far as I know, not available at the time of writing the blog post in question, and possibly also when I was writing my comment.

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Shauna Gordon

It wasn't available yet (though it was already in the pipeline). I was responding to Max, whose response suggested that the addition wasn't necessary and the then-current workflow was sufficient.

Even if the latest release (with this config option) hadn't been out when I responded with the config, I still would have argued in favor of having it as a config option, with the same arguments of being able to set it once and not have to worry about terminal aliases, etc.

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