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		disgruntledphd2 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Can we communally deprecate git checkout? The irritating thing about that is that the software git defaults to master, while GitHub defaults to main. I had a lot of confusion a few months back about that.

two_cents 8 months ago [–]

You can set default branch name for your repositories in settings. Much more straightforward than in GitLab in my opinion.

disgruntledphd2 8 months ago | [–]

Yeah, I know that now but this hit me under time pressure and caused me muh confusion for a while.

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