Is it possible to alias a branch in Git?

Question

I am looking into using git on a massive scale. I was hoping to increase adoption and make things easier by calling the master branch trunk.

This can and will give

Answer 1

There is nothing special about the name "master" in Git, it's just called that by convention (and by default). You can certainly call it "trunk" if you like:

git branch -m master trunk

This is very much like Subversion, where the name "trunk" is only called that by convention too. You could have called the main branch "master" in Subversion.