From 1732ff41444ad99dd92839fa14fcc73b87deec5c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Frank Yung-Fong Tang <ftang@google.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2021 23:30:33 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] ICU-21534 Add notice about master to main rename

See #1638
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 README.md | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index cb6b54d8b9f..f444d68865d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ The ICU project is under the stewardship of [The Unicode Consortium](https://www
 
 ![ICU Logo](./tools/images/iculogo_64.png)
 
+### 🔴🔴🔴 Special Notice About Branch Renaming 🔴🔴🔴
+We plan to rename the `master` branch to `main` branch around March 24-25, 2021. You may need to rename your branch in your local git repo and change your normal git command to reflect the changes after that. See also https://github.com/github/renaming
+
 ### Build Status (`master` branch)
 
 Build | Status
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2.40.0