init: allow specifying the initial branch name for the new repository

There is a growing number of projects and companies desiring to change
the main branch name of their repositories (see e.g.
https://twitter.com/mislav/status/1270388510684598272 for background on
this).

To change that branch name for new repositories, currently the only way
to do that automatically is by copying all of Git's template directory,
then hard-coding the desired default branch name into the `.git/HEAD`
file, and then configuring `init.templateDir` to point to those copied
template files.

To make this process much less cumbersome, let's introduce a new option:
`--initial-branch=<branch-name>`.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index 0f0485ecfe..654426460c 100644
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -628,7 +628,7 @@ int path_inside_repo(const char *prefix, const char *path);
 
 int init_db(const char *git_dir, const char *real_git_dir,
 	    const char *template_dir, int hash_algo,
-	    unsigned int flags);
+	    const char *initial_branch, unsigned int flags);
 void initialize_repository_version(int hash_algo);
 
 void sanitize_stdfds(void);