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The last thing we'll talk about here is in 2020.

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I've mentioned this a few times.

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GitHub decided to rename the default branch from master to Main.

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Now we've seen that that doesn't really impact us, right?

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We've been able to just push up a master branch and it's defaulting here to showing us master.

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If I just go to this repo, we see master.

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However, I do want to talk about it.

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If we make a brand new repository, we'll just call this.

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How about colors?

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All right, here's our repo called colors.

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There it is, colors.

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And I'm going to create this repository, and maybe this time I'm going to initialize it with something.

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So we'll learn about read meets.

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But I'm just going to click this box and notice it tells me something different now, right?

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It says this will set main as the default branch if I get rid of that.

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It doesn't say anything about Main because there is no branch.

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So when I create this repo as is with no read me just completely empty.

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There is no branch that is initialized.

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But as soon as I add a file to GitHub when I'm initializing this repository is what I mean, it automatically

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needs to have a branch, right?

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You can't have files in a git repo that are tracked and committed if they're not associated with some

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branch.

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So it defaults that branch name to main.

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So we could change that in our settings so that it always defaults to master.

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But you know, more and more people are using main anyway and that's kind of the push that GitHub is

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working towards here.

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So if we do this, I create this repository now it has a file in it, it has a commit initial commit

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that was made for me, right?

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I didn't say commit dash M or anything like that.

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It just made me this read me file, which is something we'll learn more about in future sections.

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So for now it's just a file and I'm on the main branch.

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So in order to get this branch down to my machine, in order to work with it, I can clone this repository.

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So I'll copy that and then I'll go over here and make sure I'm not in a repo.

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Get clone that URL.

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And then we have this colors repo, right?

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And if you look at the branch, we're currently on its main.

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So this makes it easy.

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If we want to work on the main branch, we just clone it and we have the main branch.

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But something that you may encounter is some companies or some projects may want to rename their branch

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from master to Main to be in accordance with these.

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They're not rules by any means from GitHub, but this new decision by GitHub.

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So to do that, if you've been working on the master branch and you want to rename it to Main, it's

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just like renaming any other branch so you can actually see instructions if you make a new repository,

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I'm going to delete this, but if we make a new repository, it shows us, as we've talked about a couple

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of times, what to do right.

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It gives you instructions if you want to push an existing repository at a remote and then this line

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renames the branch are currently on to be main.

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Or here's another version of this.

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If you don't have a repository yet, make a new repo, get in it, add some stuff to it, commit rename

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the branch to main and then push your branch called Main up.

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So I'll do this with our chickens demo.

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I have this master branch, but if I want to rename it to main whoops is I need to go to that repository.

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Geez I can't type back out of here.

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Seed into chickens.

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Right.

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We have one branch which is master.

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If I do get branch dash uppercase m main that renames my branch to main.

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So now there is no master branch.

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Right.

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We just have main.

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Remember there is no significance to the master branch name itself or to the master branch period.

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It's just that you have to be working on a branch in git and by default the default branch name is master.

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If you're working on Git on your machine, but on GitHub, the default branch name if you clone a new

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repo that you have not created a branch on, but GitHub has made a branch it will default to main.

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So don't get worried.

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Don't freak out if you don't see master.

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Right.

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It's the exact same concept.

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It's just a branch.

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And GitHub made this decision recently to make main that default name.

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So now I could push this branch up get push origin main.

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And if we head over here.

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If I refresh.

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We still see the master branch, right?

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But now we see Maine.

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So there's Maine.

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You'll see, though, that master is considered the default branch here.

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That is because we pushed up Master first.

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There was no main branch.

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And so GitHub doesn't ignore a master branch.

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I can change with the default branches on this project, but really you probably would not have main

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in master in the same project.

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What you would have is either a brand new empty project.

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You clone it down and you start on the main branch, or you work on a project with your company or some,

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some team and they decide we're not going to use the term master anymore.

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We will rename to Main and then you can make Main the default.

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I believe you go into settings and then we have branches and then I can decide that the default branch

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is actually main.

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And so now I've updated my project so that it defaults to showing me Main when I visit my repository.

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So keep in mind through all of this, if you're confused, it's just a name.

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Master is just a name for Branch in main, it's just a name for a branch.

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The only complication comes if you have been working on one branch called Master and you change that

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name.

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If you change it locally, then you need to push up that new branch name to GitHub.

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And then if you care about what your default branch is on GitHub, you need to change that.

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But this is not some seismic shift.

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It's just a branch name that you can change and you'll likely see more and more people using main rather

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than master.

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Though master is still incredibly common and it's still the default branch name on Git.