From ‘master’ to ‘main’: The easy guide to renaming your Git default branch for a more inclusive codebase

Ackshaey
3 min readMar 24

I started heavy development on Firecode.io this week to get it out of beta — and one of the first changes I had to make was renaming my primary branch to “main”. In 2020, Github announced that it would be dropping the use of the term “master” for the default branch name on its platform. This decision was made in…

Ackshaey

Staff SWE / Manager @Opendoor, Ex @Twitter Ads Engineering, part time entrepreneur — built Firecode.io, options and algorithmic trading enthusiast