The main branch is the landing page for the template itself. For the first 7-9 months of using this template, I normally just deleted the main branch and switched to the one I needed. In early 2022, I realized that it was important to preserve the landing page, so I adopted a new protocol.
The main branch isn't very useful for the development of a project, but it pinpoints its origin, and is pretty small (less than a megabyte) so why delete it? Since the project is not tagged, keeping the main branch is important to easily determine the date of the repository, and the date of the changes.
The way I have been doing it recently is renaming the main branch to Git-Template_Source then switching to my preferred branch, renaming the preferred branch, then deleting all branches except for Git-Template_Source and my preferred branch.
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