Merge pull request nf-core#3335 from mashehu/set-default-branch-to-ma…

…ster

set default_branch to master for now

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@
 - Parallelize pipeline GHA tests over docker/conda/singularity ([#3214](https://github.com/nf-core/tools/pull/3214))
 - Fix `template_version_comment.yml` github action ([#3212](https://github.com/nf-core/tools/pull/3212))
 - Fix pre-commit linting on pipeline template ([#3218](https://github.com/nf-core/tools/pull/3218))
+- set default_branch to master for now ([#3335](https://github.com/nf-core/tools/issues/3335))
 
 ### Linting
 

nf_core/pipeline-template/nextflow.config

@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ validation {
     https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-020-0439-x
 
 * Software dependencies
-    https://github.com/{{ name }}/blob/master/CITATIONS.md
+    https://github.com/{{ name }}/blob/{{ default_branch }}/CITATIONS.md
 """{% endif %}
     }{% if is_nfcore %}
     summary {

nf_core/pipelines/create/create.py

@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ def __init__(
         template_config: Optional[Union[CreateConfig, str, Path]] = None,
         organisation: str = "nf-core",
         from_config_file: bool = False,
-        default_branch: str = "main",
+        default_branch: str = "master",
         is_interactive: bool = False,
     ) -> None:
         if isinstance(template_config, CreateConfig):
@@ -431,8 +431,8 @@ def get_default_branch(self) -> None:
         """Gets the default branch name from the Git configuration."""
         try:
             self.default_branch = (
-                str(git.config.GitConfigParser().get_value("init", "defaultBranch")) or "main"
-            )  # default to main
+                str(git.config.GitConfigParser().get_value("init", "defaultBranch")) or "master"
+            )  # default to master
         except configparser.Error:
             log.debug("Could not read init.defaultBranch")
         if self.default_branch in ["dev", "TEMPLATE"]: