init: allow setting the default for the initial branch name via the config

We just introduced the command-line option
`--initial-branch=<branch-name>` to allow initializing a new repository
with a different initial branch than the hard-coded one.

To allow users to override the initial branch name more permanently
(i.e. without having to specify the name manually for each and every
`git init` invocation), let's introduce the `init.defaultBranch` config
setting.

Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Helped-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Don Goodman-Wilson <don@goodman-wilson.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/refs.h b/refs.h
index a92d2c74c8..2e5146fd45 100644
--- a/refs.h
+++ b/refs.h
@@ -155,6 +155,15 @@ int dwim_ref(const char *str, int len, struct object_id *oid, char **ref);
 int dwim_log(const char *str, int len, struct object_id *oid, char **ref);
 
 /*
+ * Retrieves the default branch name for newly-initialized repositories.
+ *
+ * The return value of `repo_default_branch_name()` is an allocated string. The
+ * return value of `git_default_branch_name()` is a singleton.
+ */
+const char *git_default_branch_name(void);
+char *repo_default_branch_name(struct repository *r);
+
+/*
  * A ref_transaction represents a collection of reference updates that
  * should succeed or fail together.
  *