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fatal: Couldn't find remote ref master

If you are using Github then master is now known as main. Whatever you want to do with a master must now be referred to a main. If you search for this error message on the Internet then you will encounter with a lot of old discussions on how to set up your master properly which is probably not what you are looking for. The master is your problem. Rename it to main.

I wrote Git My Way about two years ago. Today I created another Github repository. I got this "fatal: Couldn't find remote ref master" error message when I wanted to sync the new repo for the first time with my notebook using the notes I wrote in the blog. All the discussions around the error message I found on the Internet were perplexing. Then I recalled that Github had renamed master to main due to the master-slave connotation.

We always have a master copy of a code, never a slave copy. Now suddenly a word context has been diminished for good. What is going to happen to the existing vast documentations, blogs, and discussions on master?

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