Answer by yassine dotma for git: rename local branch failed

You can change the name from master to main in few steps, locally before you even make a commit.

1. Navigate to the directory where your project sits.
2. In it, show hidden file since by default, .git would be hidden.
3. Inside .git, there is a file, HEAD, open it in a text editor.You'd see, ref: refs/heads/master.
4. Simple enough, change, master to main.

We just renamed the master branch as main. Verify this merely by entering, git branch from the terminal.