Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/28] Use main as default branch name

From: Jonathan Nieder <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 18:40:28 -0800

Jeff King wrote:

> IMHO, though, all of this is orthogonal to question of what the default
> is. Unless we are thinking the basename thing would work as a default,
> but I don't think that resolves any of the backwards-compatibility
> concerns.

If we think it would make sense as the *eventual* default, we could use

	[init]
		defaultBranchName =

(i.e., an empty string) to request it early.