A fresh checkout of geode and all but one geode-<relatedproject> repos checks out develop as the Default branch.
The lone exception is geode-examples. Please vote +1 if you are in favor of changing its Default branch to develop for consistency with the other repos and other reasons as per recent discussion[1]. [1] https://lists.apache.org/x/thread.html/rfec15c0a7d5d6d57beed90868dbb53e3bfcaabca67589b28585556ee@%3Cdev.geode.apache.org%3E