[git] Cannot configure default branch name without manual intervention
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Description
I have started using main as my default Git branch instead of master (which is widespread now, and default for newer Git versions). Keybase git does not handle this well, as the master branch is empty, so pullers must git clone -b main ... to pull the main branch.
I believe that Keybase git should use the first pushed branch as its default branch name (this will accommodate both old git versions using master and newer git versions where main is default and the initial branch name is configurable), and probably the default branch should be configurable in the Keybase GUI.
The default branch can currently be changed by editing HEAD in the raw Git repository in .kbfs_git.
This is related to #22929.
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Research direction
Start by reading the issue and related issue #22929, then inspect how Keybase Git repositories initialize and expose the HEAD file under .kbfs_git. Determine where the first pushed branch and GUI configuration would be handled. Done means a repository can use its first pushed branch as the default, with the default branch configurable without manually editing the raw repository.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- git, go
- Domain
- backend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100