git default branch

Jan Palus atler at pld-linux.org
Tue Feb 2 14:39:22 CET 2021


On 02.02.2021 14:30, Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz wrote:
> W dniu 02.02.2021 o 14:11, Jan Palus pisze:
> > Could someone please silent this hint? FWIW "master" is still perfectly
> > fine as far as I'm concerned.
> > 
> > $ git pld init alacritty
> > hint: Using 'master' as the name for the initial branch. This default branch name
> > hint: is subject to change. To configure the initial branch name to use in all
> > hint: of your new repositories, which will suppress this warning, call:
> > hint:
> > hint: 	git config --global init.defaultBranch <name>
> > hint:
> > hint: Names commonly chosen instead of 'master' are 'main', 'trunk' and
> > hint: 'development'. The just-created branch can be renamed via this command:
> > hint:
> > hint: 	git branch -m <name>
> > Initialized empty Git repository in /cvs/root/gitolite/repositories/packages/alacritty.git/
> 
> git config --global init.defaultBranch master
> 
> doesn't make it silent aka is this from local or remote git?

remote I believe, especially judging by last line. defaultBranch was
already set in my local config.


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