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Q&A Why force designation of a remote main branch?

GitHub seems to require that one of the branches on it be marked as the "primary" branch. I understand this (perhaps mistakenly) to be the origin/HEAD. Why would they make it compulsory? On forked...

2 answers  ·  posted 2d ago by Michael‭  ·  last activity 20h ago by InfiniteDissent‭

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar Michael‭ · 2025-03-13T00:23:31Z (2 days ago)
Why force designation of a remote main branch?
GitHub seems to require that one of the branches on it be marked as the "primary" branch. I understand this (perhaps mistakenly) to be the `origin/HEAD`. Why would they make it compulsory?

On forked repositories, I'm usually making branches and submitting pull requests. There's not really a "main" branch that I want to keep up-to-date. Yet GitHub makes me mark one.