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You are technically correct. In reality though you can't expect programmers to code for eventualities that occur only in extremely rare cases (until now).

• underyx 6y ago
  It's less rare than you think. Lots of repos use "develop", or "trunk" as their default, for instance.
  • bhaak 6y ago
    Yes, many repositories use something else than "master" as their main development branch. But how many of those don't have a "master" branch at all?