I deal with the main/master brouhaha by using a script I wrote that determines the name of the appropriate branch: #!/bin/bash git remote show ori

I deal with the main/master brouhaha by using a script I wrote that determines the name of the appropriate branch: #!/bin/bash git remote show origin | sed -n '/^ *HEAD branch: */s///p' It's in my `$HOME/bin` as `git-master`, symlinked as `git-main`. git switch $(git master) (`git foo` finds and executes a `git-foo` command anywhere in $PATH, a handy feature if you want to implement your own extensions.) (This is of course irrelevant to the topic of the top-level post.)