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 #### Branching Strategy
 
-For Talawa Admin, we had employed the following branching strategy to simplify the development process and to ensure that only stable code is pushed to the `master` branch:
+For Talawa Admin, we had employed the following branching strategy to simplify the development process and to ensure that only stable code is pushed to the `main` branch:
 
 - `develop`: For unstable code and bug fixing
 - `alpha-x.x.x`: for stability teesting
-- `master`: Where the stable production ready code lies
+- `main`: Where the stable production ready code lies
 
 #### Conflict Resolution