Initial setup defaults the branch to 'gh-pages' rather than 'main'

[rgwilton]

I pulled a new draft repository from the template today (to help a friend migrate to the tool).

After the repo was created, it ended up defaulting to the 'gh-pages' branch in github rather than 'main' that I would normally expect.

Note, I did have one copy and paste bug in my initial setup, where I had a duplicate:

title: "TODO - Your title"
abbrev: "TODO - Abbreviation"
category: info

after the authors section in the YAML, I don't know if that could have affected anything: rgwilton/foo2@1e19614

The repo is public: https://github.com/rgwilton/foo2, but I will probably delete after a week or so.

[martinthomson]

Weird. That repo looks like it is properly set up, but the files on GitHub pages seem to imply that gh-pages is the main branch. I just made my own copy and I'm not able to reproduce the same effect.

I doubt that replicating tags will change the outcome. At least, not in a way that affects the branch setup.