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x/pkgsite: support viewing a package @ default branch HEAD

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#41,312 opened on Sep 10, 2020

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Description

Previously, #36811 added support for viewing packages at master on pkg.go.dev. Many repos are moving their default branch names away from master to main or something-else-not-master.

It seems that master is hard-coded in pkgsite.

Would it be possible to support some kind of magic version string that gets the default branch, whatever it may be named? This may end up being the reason that I move some of my repos back to master, which I'd like to avoid.

See also this comment as FYI

cc @julieqiu

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Research direction
Investigate the hard coded 'master' usage in internal/discovery.go and design a way to fetch the default branch name for a repo via the Go module proxy or VCS info.
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