"On Oct. 1, 2020, any new repositories you create will use main as the default branch, instead of master," the company said. Existing repositories that have "master" set as the default branch will ...

Microsoft-owned GitHub is changing its default project names to avoid slavery-related terms. ... who said she would be happy to rename the "master" branch of the project to "main".

GitHub on July 27 released notes for Git 2.28, confirming the name change from master to main. GitHub's Twitter page posted that it stands with the black community and the fight against racism.

GitHub is working on replacing the term "master" on its service with a neutral term like "main" to avoid any unnecessary references to slavery, its CEO said on Friday. The code-hosting portal is ...