Description of problem:

When using a git repo with the new "main" default branch type, an error can be raised while replicating the repository.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

RHACM 2.10.3

MCE - 2.5.3

gitops 1.12.2

How reproducible:

not attempted in lab, customer environment able to reproduce easily

Steps to Reproduce:

1. create a new git repo using "main" as a branch name
2. use it to host a gitops policy project
3. deploy it to managed clusters with RHACM

Actual results:

An error is raised syncing the repo. The one in the attempt had a kustomize.yaml and raised a "entry not found" error.

Expected results:

the repo does not fail to download or raises a better error on the cause for the failure to clone the repo

Additional info:

• the environment affected was using Atlassian v 0.19.
• when creating a new project with "master" as a default branch and the same content the project did not fail to get cloned