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rozab on Nov 18, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Update to Git changes the default of init.defaultB...

This will have broken tens of thousands of beginner programming tutorials. Very unfortunate.

jtlowe on Nov 18, 2020 | [–]

Hopefully many of these tutorials will be updated or replaced by other resources over time.

It would be helpful if git threw a descriptive error when trying to check out 'master' if it doesn't exist, and is not set to the default branch.

dspillett on Nov 18, 2020 | [–]

Teaches the beginners a valuable lesson about relying on defaults I suppose...

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