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tome on June 6, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Gitea – Alternative to GitLab and GitHub

Both "origin" and "master" are conventions. They are promoted by the tooling that gives them a sort of default status.

saltedmd5 on June 6, 2018 [–]

In the context of the original post, he is referring to origin (the convention for a default remote repository), not master (the convention for a default branch).

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