Default Branch Update Master to Main

Documentation on updating default branch from master to main when using StackedPRs CLI.

If you choose to switch over the default branch, for instance from master to main, a few steps must be taken to update Stacked PRs CLI to handle this change:

1. Ensure that local remote HEAD is updated

You can do this with git remote set-head origin --auto.

You can read the git man page for more details: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-remote#Documentation/git-remote.txt-emset-headem

2. Modify .git/av/av.db file to replace the parent

In your repository .git directory has a file named .git/av/av.db. This file is a JSON document. If you open that, you can see sections like this:

This file is used by the av CLI to track each branch's parent. You can change master to main or whatever default branch name change you are making for all existing branches. If you are unsure, please take a backup.

With these two steps, av should recognize main as master, including existing branches.

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