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Update to Git changes the default of init.defaultBranch to main

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Re: Update to Git changes the default of init.defaultBranch to main

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Post by revnode »

defen wrote: post #20
umvi wrote: post #9

Sigh... sad to see the tech community bullied into compliance over a non-issue by political correctness activists. It's not really that big of a deal (and in some ways "main" is better anyway because it's 2 characters shorter), it's just the principle of the thing that bothers me. I would rather see projects and people stand their ground instead of caving to pressure anytime a twitter mob comes along.

Git is Free software so nothing is stopping people from forking it and excluding these patches if they feel that strongly about it.

You're then forced to maintain a fork because of someone else's immaturity. That's not a solution to the problem.

Re: Update to Git changes the default of init.defaultBranch to main

#33

Post by kalkin »

umvi wrote: post #9

Sigh... sad to see the tech community bullied into compliance over a non-issue by political correctness activists. It's not really that big of a deal (and in some ways "main" is better anyway because it's 2 characters shorter), it's just the principle of the thing that bothers me. I would rather see projects and people stand their ground instead of caving to pressure anytime a twitter mob comes along.

What is the principle that's at stake here?

Re: Update to Git changes the default of init.defaultBranch to main

#34

Post by thaumasiotes »

defen wrote: post #20
umvi wrote: post #9

Sigh... sad to see the tech community bullied into compliance over a non-issue by political correctness activists. It's not really that big of a deal (and in some ways "main" is better anyway because it's 2 characters shorter), it's just the principle of the thing that bothers me. I would rather see projects and people stand their ground instead of caving to pressure anytime a twitter mob comes along.

Git is Free software so nothing is stopping people from forking it and excluding these patches if they feel that strongly about it.

>> I would rather see projects and people stand their ground instead of caving to pressure anytime a twitter mob comes along.

You didn't respond to this in any way.

Re: Update to Git changes the default of init.defaultBranch to main

#35

Post by secondcoming »

When this came up initially I asked some of our PoC employees for their thoughts on it down the pub. One didn't care, and the other thought it was stupid.

We did change to exclusion/inclusion lists though, as that terminology is used when communicating with customers.

Re: Update to Git changes the default of init.defaultBranch to main

#36

Post by s_dev »

PretzelFisch wrote: post #13

If the name change builds a larger, diverse, empathetic community. What have you or I lost?

Enduring a breaking change for something that will have absolutely 0 impact on the diversity, size or empathy of the software dev community.

Re: Update to Git changes the default of init.defaultBranch to main

#37

Post by ttmb »

umvi wrote: post #9

Sigh... sad to see the tech community bullied into compliance over a non-issue by political correctness activists. It's not really that big of a deal (and in some ways "main" is better anyway because it's 2 characters shorter), it's just the principle of the thing that bothers me. I would rather see projects and people stand their ground instead of caving to pressure anytime a twitter mob comes along.

What is the principle of standing ground in and of itself? Standing ground for a good reason, yes, but without a good reason, what is the virtue of just standing?

Re: Update to Git changes the default of init.defaultBranch to main

#38

Post by cratermoon »

denysvitali wrote: post #11

Can we please stop wondering about being politically correct and focus on the real problems of the world? Thanks! I would also like to add the fact that politics or any social matter IMHO should be kept out of software in general. I don't think that any other engineering field has this much drama over some words that have been part of our whole life until now like IT is having.

> politics or any social matter IMHO should be kept out of software in general

How would that work?

Re: Update to Git changes the default of init.defaultBranch to main

#39

Post by kyawzazaw »

throwaheyy wrote: post #6
tachyonbeam wrote: post #3

If I say "you are the master of your own destiny", is that offensive, because the word "master" is always offensive? I think that "main branch" sounds fine, it makes as much sense as "master branch", but I'm irked that people are always caving to word policing. Like, we're just going to scratch a whole bunch of words from the dictionary because someone somewhere is offended? The other day, people at my workplace were…

Not sure I understand the idea of banning words being taken so far. I always interpreted Git’s usage of ‘master’ to mean the original replica. Like the golden master of a record or CD.

this has been explained further again and again

Re: Update to Git changes the default of init.defaultBranch to main

#40

Post by bluntfang »

revnode wrote: post #31
defen wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Git is Free software so nothing is stopping people from forking it and excluding these patches if they feel that strongly about it.

You're then forced to maintain a fork because of someone else's immaturity. That's not a solution to the problem.

I feel like complaining about a disagreement in direction of an open source project while not wanting to put effort in directing it in the way you like via the normal channels, forking or contribution, to be immature.
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