In the Pro Git book, it says
“origin” is not special
Just like the branch name “master” does not have any special meaning in Git, neither does “origin”. While “master” is the default name for a starting branch when you run git init which is the only reason it’s widely used, “origin” is the default name for a remote when you run git clone. If you run git clone -o booyah instead, then you will have booyah/master as your default remote branch.
That means, we can use our default branch name as main or main-branch or something like that. I didn’t see any option in man git-init which will initialize my repo with a different default branch name.
GitHub shows how to set the default branch name in its settings page. But I am not talking about how to set it on any specific Git hosting site. I am strictly asking in terms of Git only, not in regards to any specific Git hosting site.
Is there a way to do that?