Is it possible to alias a branch in Git?

You can rename the master branch trunk as Greg has suggested, or you can also create a trunk that is a symbolic reference to the master branch so that both git and svn users have the 'main' branch that they are used to. git symbolic-ref refs/heads/trunk refs/heads/master Note that trunk isn't a first class citizen. If you checkout trunk and perform a git status you will actually be on master, however you can use the trunk command in all places that you use the branch name (log, merge, etc.). share | improve this answer

Serving both types of users is my main concern. Is doing this on the server sufficient for the alias really to be completely visible? I would vote you up by I don't have the cred for it yet. –   ojblass  Feb 14 '09 at 23:15
	Yes, it is. When users git fetch, they'll see a remote ref for both origin/master and origin/trunk. It won't necessarily be obvious from the fetch that they are the same thing, but when anyone pushes to either master or trunk then both branches will 'magically' be updated together. –   Charles Bailey  Feb 14 '09 at 23:32
1	I don't think symrefs transfer to clone if one use git:// or ssh protocol - you better check it. –  Jakub Narębski  Feb 15 '09 at 15:27
1	I don't think they do, either, they just turn into normal remote refs, but they both still track the symref-ed central branch so in a way (perhaps) it doesn't matter. One difference I can think of is that you will have to fetch after pushing to notice that the other remote branch moved as well. –   Charles Bailey  Feb 15 '09 at 17:04

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