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Visual Studio Code – Git init is not able to update default branch to main branch instead of master branch

On vscode, using wsl terminal, I was setting the global the default branch as main as shown below,

git config --global init.defaultBranch main

Now, inside my project folder, when I do git init and check git status the default branch is still master. What else I need to do to make the default branch as main?

Even .gitconfig, contains defaultBranch as main:

cat ~/.gitconfig

[init]
    defaultBranch = main

Current git version:

git version2.25.1
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    I tried to update the git version from git version2.25.1 to current latest version i.e., git version 2.41.0. After this my git configurations are getting correctly detected.

    From @RickN's comment,

    The defaultBranch option was introduced in Git 2.28, so your config file was detected without fault, just with an unsupported configuration option.


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    Git has multiple levels of config: system, global, local.

    If you want to quickly verify what happens in your local repo justgit config -e --local or git config --list to see

    Otherwise modify the global ~/.gitconfig yourself config and add/update section:

    [init]
  defaultBranch = main
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