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GitLab sets the first pushed branch as the default branch

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#93 opened on Mar 15, 2016

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Description

my repos mirrored from Github end up in Gitlab with a different default branch. I'm guessing it is related to: https://feeding.cloud.geek.nz/posts/setting-default-git-branch-in-bare/

but my git knowledge falls off quite a bit when we started talking about refs and such

any reason not to just "ref: refs/heads/master" on every new repo/project in Github?

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Investigate the mirror sync script to see where the default branch is set and modify it to match the source repository's default branch.
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