Canonical advice on renaming 'master'

Question

Like many developers I'm looking to rename my `master` branches to `main`.

However, I am not a git expert and it feels like quite a risky thing to do.

It would be good if someone at Atlassian could offer canonical, Bitbucket specific advice for this. Apologies if they have and I didn't find it.

Tyler T · Answer

Hi @lasmit , here is an article on the Community with links to resources regarding the change you'd like to make: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Bitbucket-articles/Moving-away-from-Master-as-the-default-name-for-Branches-in-Git/ba-p/1414060

lasmit · Answer

This seems like a good place to start https://kiloloco.com/articles/003-From-Master-To-Main