ShustOne

They never forced a retroactive change

I think this is an excuse. Using the CLI you can easily create and specify the default branch. It’s also not difficult to check the branch name.

I use GitHub and all my older repos have a master branch with no forced change. When did they force a change? I think you are mistaken.

We’re just used to it though. What does master have above main in terms of communicating context?

I’d really advise against forcing all code contributions to be copyrighted to you. It doesn’t send a great message to contributors. It also gets murky if any libraries are used.

That’s a fair take

I think we’re thinking about it wrong. These aren’t open source people looking to contribute to projects. These are product creators looking to reach the open source community. It’s not the same mindset.