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I would like to be able to ask Git "what is the default branch name for this repository?" and I would expect either main or master as the result. I've search git config but haven't been able to find a/the relevant option.

Steven Hepting
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This simple snippet should work:

git remote show origin | sed -n '/HEAD branch/s/.*: //p'

Replace origin with name of your remote if it's not default

ShockwaveNN
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