Is it possible to alias a branch in Git?

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You can rename the master branch trunk as Greg has suggested, or you can also create a trunk that is a symbolic reference to the master branch so that both git and svn users have the ‘main’ branch that they are used to.

git symbolic-ref refs/heads/trunk refs/heads/master

Note that trunk isn’t a first class citizen. If you checkout trunk and perform a git status you will actually be on master, however you can use the trunk command in all places that you use the branch name (log, merge, etc.).

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