Re: Consensus on a new default branch name

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

Thanks for writing this out (I'm still catching up on list email after a
vacation, so I missed the earlier thread). It really cemented for me
that "main" is better than "default".

In any case, it makes sense to use separate words for the concept
("default" --- as in "the name given to the first branch created in
the repository by default") and the actualy value chosen for the
entity (master or main in this case).  

The statement:

    I configure in ~/.gitconfig that the default branch name for all my
    repositories to be 'main'

is much easier to read than the last 'main' replaced with 'default'.