GitHub renamed the master branch to main for any Git repository, as it addresses cultural change like so many organizations that have nixed master-slave terminology in a time of social unrest.

The drawback is the fact that changes to the commit history of the master branch are often rejected by tools like GitLab and GitHub due to the possibility that a master git rebase can negatively ...

The default branch in GitHub, also referred to as the “master branch,” is considered the base branch in one’s code repository. This is where all pull requests and code commits are ...

Starting next month, all new source code repositories created on GitHub will be named "main" instead of "master" as part of the company's effort to remove unnecessary references to slavery and ...

In solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, GitHub, a Microsoft-owned company that provides hosting for software development, is working on removing coding terms like "master" and "slave." ...

GitHub is working on replacing the term "master" on its service with a neutral term like "main" to avoid any unnecessary references to slavery, its CEO said on Friday.

GitHub has added a new feature to pull requests, allowing developers to mark their requests as a draft. Marking a request as a draft allows the developer to highlight to other collaborators that ...