What is the git branch master?

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When you run a git status in a new git repositoy, you see the text "On branch master"

Git saves files in a series of "commits" a git term, for a number of saves of a certain file rather like any document editing software, except, you are not saving back to the same file all the time every time, instead every change is stored in a series of commits. The name for this in git is master by default.