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Default Branch

We've been using Git's default master branch. Interestingly, GitHub (a website where you can remotely store Git projects) recently changed its default branch from master to main. As a general rule, I recommend using main as your default branch if you work primarily with GitHub, as we will.

How to Rename a Branch

git branch -m oldname newname

Assignment

Change your global Git configuration to use main as the default branch:

git config set --global init.defaultBranch main

Git config keys are case-insensitive, so defaultBranch and defaultbranch work the same. Git just prefers lowercase when displaying them.

Check your current branch:

git branch

You should notice that you're still on master! That's because all you did was change the default branch for new repositories.

To make this repo use main, rename the master branch to main.
Run git branch again to make sure you're on the main branch.

Run and submit the CLI tests.