I would have preferred "default" as Mercurial does it. "main" suggests it is the main branch under development whereas "default" doesn't as clearly. But both

I would have preferred "default" as Mercurial does it. "main" suggests it is the main branch under development whereas "default" doesn't as clearly. But both terms are better than "master" if we disregard the weight a bad default name has gotten after years of continued use.