This is getting really stupid now. Who are these people? At the risk of invoking the slippery slope, they will never be satisfied.
Will the silent majority bend over to these extremists on Twitter?
GitHub wil change default branch name from 'master' to 'main'
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#12remember factorybot ?
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#13Pure lunacy, hope this turns out to be a joke.
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#14If you read "master branch" and think of slavery, you have reading comprehension issues that won't be fixed by renaming the branch. (I know bitkeeper used master/slave terminology for repositories; that is completely irrelevant to git).
Given how even distributed systems used to use master/slave frequently, and some still do, and that people don't say "master branch" and typically just say "master", I think it would be surprising for someone to avoid that association if they are educated in computer sincere using those terms (which again many places do).
Also, it's not reading comprehension, it's subconscious level associations that people basically can't avoid.
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#15I feel like this will break a very significant amount of tooling
Now that consider all tools need to support new non-offensive terminology and old racist terminology used in existing projects
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#16I saw a great point mentioned elsewhere on Twitter that an even better methodology is to use "prod" and "dev", as it makes the intent that little bit clearer.
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#17Is this related to master-slave? Master-slave in programming has nothing to do with humans, the contexts are separate. What's it say about society if people are unable to differentiate, separate the language in two contexts?
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#18Even existing projects??? No, that's not going to break tons of stuff and tooling built and running on production around "master" /s
Has someone said that's what they're doing? Have you seen more information about this change? Because the link here is just saying "that's a good idea and we're working on it" in response to someone asking about changing the default branch name. Like default sounds like new project creation time.
That's what I'm asking. I mean there are probably tons and tons of custom built tools, ci/cd's around the current default "master" branch. It would be awesome to wake up and see a ton of alarms and all builds and deployments failing, wouldn't it.
Re: GitHub wil change default branch name from 'master' to 'main'
#19I saw a great point mentioned elsewhere on Twitter that an even better methodology is to use "prod" and "dev", as it makes the intent that little bit clearer.
But we already follow git-flow and have master, prod, staging and dev branches
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