Using git through wsl (ubuntu) & windows terminal, how do you change the default branch name to main?

Question

Using git through wsl (ubuntu) & windows terminal, how do you change the default branch name to main?

I've already tried:

git config --global init.defaultBranch main

and the setting "init.defaultbranch=main" is there when I look at:

git config --global --list

but when I try to make a new git init in a brand new folder it still uses master... Any ideas?

Answer 1

So it turns out you need git version 2.28 or higher. I had git version 2.25.1 even though I just installed git a few months ago. For Ubuntu it seems you have to jump through a few hoops to get the lastest version.

This is what I tried

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:git-core/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git

After that you can check your version using:

git --version

If you added the global setting in the code from my question you should be good to go.