Comment by dijit

it should be noted that git (the binary) is also in the process of deprecating `master`.

This is the message I get on my machine when running git init:

  hint: Using 'master' as the name for the initial branch. This default branch name
  hint: is subject to change. To configure the initial branch name to use in all
  hint: of your new repositories, which will suppress this warning, call:
  hint: 
  hint:  git config --global init.defaultBranch <name>
  hint: 
  hint: Names commonly chosen instead of 'master' are 'main', 'trunk' and
  hint: 'development'. The just-created branch can be renamed via this command:
  hint: 
  hint:  git branch -m <name>
  Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/test