Vic 🌮 @VicVijayakumar

the most annoying thing about the industry-wide master -> main git branch renaming of 2021 is the complete inconsistency of it.

(this is a technical post, not politics)

any repo that was hard to do because of ci/releases/hardcoded integrations was delayed until later (and eventually deprioritized). if you work with a lot of different repos at your job, you're going to get annoyed pretty quickly.

anyway, here are two aliases I have:

the one that's always correct, but slow:
git checkout "$(git remote show origin | sed -n '/HEAD branch/s/.*: //p')"

the one that's fast and works 99.999% of the time:
git checkout main 2>/dev/null || git checkout master

alias them to `gcom` or something

now anytime you type gcom it tries to switch to main and if it doesn't exist, it switches to master

Mar 17, 2025 View on X →

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