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How to Rename the master branch to main in Git

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So you might just init git repository locally and the branch by default is set to "master". Since many of the git online repositories make use of "main" as the default one now, you'll have to rename it.

The command to change the branch name is like below, use "-m" flag to modify the branch name.
git branch -m master main

Now the branch name will be called "main" and you can push it to the online repository.
git push --set-upstream origin main
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