/kill-your-masters

an anti-racist git init

Primary LanguageShell

This project contains a git template directory that changes the default HEAD from "master" to "main" because that shit is racist.

About

The git template includes everything in the system default git template with one modification: it changes the contents of HEAD from ref: refs/heads/master to ref: refs/heads/main

Using this template makes it so that every time you git init from now on, the project will initiallize with a "main" branch and not a "master" branch.

Read more about git templates here: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-init#_template_directory

Getting Started

  1. Clone this repository somewhere.

  2. Add this to your git config:

    [init]
	templatedir = path/to/this/directory/black-lives-matter.git

  3. Go test it out. Initialize a blank git repo somewhere and see that is intialized with a "main" branch.

Customizing

Change the contents of HEAD to ref: refs/heads/<whatever>.

Here are some suggestions that are also better than master:

  • primary
  • prod
  • parent