As long as changing the name of the default branch in a Git repo is worthy of the front page of Hacker News: I also changed my defaults this year. My muscle memory has changed so that “main” is now what I expect. I’ll just go with the flow and change the name of a branch whenever I trip over it.

> We've chosen main specifically as it's the default for newly-created repositories in GitHub and the renaming will leverage the GitHub tooling built to make this easier.

Suuuuure.

The original master -> main folks should have been laughed out of the room the first time around. At this point it's a religion.