Actually... It should probably try 'main' and then switch to 'master' as a
backup, since people may switch to 'main' but leave an old 'master' branch
lying around...

On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 8:58 AM Michal Wallace <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
> Github no longer uses 'master' as the default branch name for new
> repositories.
> The new standard default branch is 'main'.
>
> It does look like you can say :
>
>     install 'github:user/repo@main'
>
> Perhaps if the branch is left blank and 'master' doesn't exist, it could
> try 'main' instead?
>
>
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