change-github-default-branch.sh

$ curl --silent --location --output - \
    https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PurpleBooth/change-github-default-branch.sh/main/change-github-default-branch.sh | \
    bash -s --
USAGE: curl --silent --location --output - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PurpleBooth/change-github-default-branch.sh/main/change-github-default-branch.sh | bash -s -- [-t GITHUB_TOKEN] [-d DEFAULT_BRANCH_NAME] USER/REPO

OPTIONS
  -t          Default: GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable     The GitHub token to use
  -d          Default: main                                  The new branch
ARGS
  USER/REPO   Required  A github repository, for example purplebooth/readable-name-generator

You can create a GitHub token (it needs at least repo:public_repo, or repo on private repositores) from https://github.com/settings/tokens/new

A more full examle:

curl --silent --location --output - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PurpleBooth/change-github-default-branch.sh/main/change-github-default-branch.sh | \
    bash -s -- \
    -t YOURGITHUBTOKENAAAAAA -d primary example/repo

Alternatively, to avoid curling to bash you can run

curl -LO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PurpleBooth/change-github-default-branch.sh/main/change-github-default-branch.sh
chmod +x change-github-default-branch.sh
./change-github-default-branch.sh -t YOURGITHUBTOKENAAAAAA -d primary example/repo

Does not delete the old default branch, or change where pull requests are based from, incase something breaks.

Dependencies

• Curl
• Python2 or Python3

Thanks

• mfcrocker for ubuntu fixes.
• greg-1-anderson for spotting a couple of bugs
• Lewiscowles1986 for letting you change the default branch if your branch isn't the one git sets