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Re: Ask HN: Is GitHub still a desirable place to work?

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Is Github still the type of place that changes your branch names from master to main, (for your own good of course) and bans usage of the word "meritocracy" so as not to hurt people's feelings?

> changes your branch names from master to main It’s a trivial name change, stay mad.

If it was trivial, then it was unnecessary. And yet...

Re: Ask HN: Is GitHub still a desirable place to work?

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> changes your branch names from master to main It’s a trivial name change, stay mad.

>It’s a trivial name change Tell that to a decade of tooling, training and documentation. I don't necessarily have a problem with the change, but I wish people would quit telling me it's nothing. It's not the end of the world or anything, but next time someone who's trying to coast by with the least git knowledge possible (90% of the office) needs help because of this, or is just frustrated that there's another compl…

If you can't undertake renaming a branch, or tolerate being forced to learn how to rename a branch, then I'm not sure if you really belong in the technical field of software.

Re: Ask HN: Is GitHub still a desirable place to work?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

>It’s a trivial name change Tell that to a decade of tooling, training and documentation. I don't necessarily have a problem with the change, but I wish people would quit telling me it's nothing. It's not the end of the world or anything, but next time someone who's trying to coast by with the least git knowledge possible (90% of the office) needs help because of this, or is just frustrated that there's another compl…

If you can't undertake renaming a branch, or tolerate being forced to learn how to rename a branch, then I'm not sure if you really belong in the technical field of software.

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Re: Ask HN: Is GitHub still a desirable place to work?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

>It’s a trivial name change Tell that to a decade of tooling, training and documentation. I don't necessarily have a problem with the change, but I wish people would quit telling me it's nothing. It's not the end of the world or anything, but next time someone who's trying to coast by with the least git knowledge possible (90% of the office) needs help because of this, or is just frustrated that there's another compl…

If you can't undertake renaming a branch, or tolerate being forced to learn how to rename a branch, then I'm not sure if you really belong in the technical field of software.

And what is the argument for forcing that change? Master has nothing to do with slavery, so what is the argument?
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