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@tvachkov the change to main is a deliberate one: https://github.com/github/renaming, and https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53050955 👍

It would be better to name the branch explicitly on init considering the default branch name can be reconfigured.

I agree the current guide appears broken.

I agree on that - main is deliberated. But since the guide advices to call git init with no parameter for --initial-branch=<branch-name> resp. -b <branch-name>' this falls back to the default name: master.

Then one gets the error: src refspec main does not match any.

@tvachkov i think the right fix would be to change the init call to git init -b main. Github itself is changing the default branch name to main at the moment and git is making the default branch name reconfigurable. Considering that can cause confusion and a bad user experience, i think it's better to be explicit here on branch creation.

Also it's pretty evident that main is the preferred branch name now.