Added by Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli about 3 years ago. Updated about 3 years ago.
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When irelativism tried to delete the master branch of contrib/irelativism/wiki-migration-scripts, it gave the following error:
$ git push origin --delete master remote: error: By default, deleting the current branch is denied, because the next remote: 'git clone' won't result in any file checked out, causing confusion. remote: remote: You can set 'receive.denyDeleteCurrent' configuration variable to remote: 'warn' or 'ignore' in the remote repository to allow deleting the remote: current branch, with or without a warning message. remote: remote: To squelch this message, you can set it to 'refuse'. remote: error: refusing to delete the current branch: refs/heads/master To ssh://git.replicant.us/contrib/irelativism/wiki-migration-scripts ! [remote rejected] master (deletion of the current branch prohibited) error: failed to push some refs to 'ssh://git@git.replicant.us/contrib/irelativism/wiki-migration-scripts'
So it might be a good idea to look if it's possible for users to really delete the master branch.
A easy solution for this would be to set the default on main, so then problem presists but only with "main branches"