Please allow the ability to change the default branch for a source repository in the GCloud UI. The default branch is currently set to master. If this branch is not pushed to the repository, the message "No commits on the default branch" is displayed.

What you would like to accomplish:

Please add a control that allows the default branch to be changed from master to any existing branch. The default branch will be used to populate the UI on the homepage of a Cloud Source Repository.

How this might work:

This could work as a drop down selector populated by current branches in the repository. The UI element could be placed on the settings page for the repository.

If applicable, reasons why alternative solutions are not sufficient:

On 10/1/2020 Github will be setting the default branch of all newly created repositories to main instead of master. In addition, both Github, Azure and many other git hosting providers already allow changing the default branch.

https://github.com/github/renaming

Other information (workarounds you have tried, documentation consulted, etc):
Searched Cloud Source Repository documentation via https://www.google.com/search?safe=off&q=site%3Acloud.google.com%2Fsource-repositories%2Fdocs+default+branch

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