main branches locally

Posted Oct 25, 2025 23:32 UTC (Sat) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)
In reply to: main branches locally by josh
Parent article: Git considers SHA-256, Rust, LLMs, and more

> I wish the fork repository didn't have a main branch at *all*; I only want to push feature branches to my fork, not some stale main branch.

Agreed, that pointless copy/paste/diverge of origin/main is misleading and annoying.

But note Github was even worse a few years back when forking always duplicated _all_ origin branches! At least you can choose now to have only one stale duplicate. Significant progress.