Why does “git push main” work on GitHub when “git push master” does not? Also what is difference between “Main branch” and “Master branch”?

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From the ZDNet article, GitHub to replace “master” with alternative term to avoid slavery references:

GitHub is working on replacing the term “master” on its service with a neutral term like “main” to avoid any unnecessary references to slavery,

About renaming your branch from master to main, there are a lot of guidelines. For example:

git branch -m master main \
git push -u origin main \
git remote set-head origin main

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