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@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Please submit a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) before submitting a pull req
 Your pull request should: 
 
 * Include a description of what your change intends to do
-* Be a child commit of a reasonably recent commit in the **master** branch 
+* Be a child commit of a reasonably recent commit in the **main** branch 
     * Requests need not be a single commit, but should be a linear sequence of commits (i.e. no merge commits in your PR)
 * It is desirable, but not necessary, for the tests to pass at each commit. Please see [README.md](./README.md) for instructions to build the test suite. 
 * Have clear commit messages