Merge pull request #1475 from HonkingGoose/feature/add-section-on-setting-default-branch

Create section: your default branch name after git init

Author: ben

book/01-introduction/sections/first-time-setup.asc

@@ -84,6 +84,18 @@ You may find, if you don't setup your editor like this, you get into a really co
 An example on a Windows system may include a prematurely terminated Git operation during a Git initiated edit.
 ====
 
+==== Your default branch name
+
+By default Git will create a branch called _master_ when you create a new repository with `git init`.
+From Git version 2.28 onwards, you can set a different name for the initial branch.
+
+To set _main_ as the default branch name do:
+
+[source,console]
+----
+$ git config --global init.defaultBranch main
+----
+
 ==== Checking Your Settings
 
 If you want to check your configuration settings, you can use the `git config --list` command to list all the settings Git can find at that point: