Another victim of this hysteria. Will surely make a point to switch it back every time I create a repo.
Downvoted because sneering dismissal serves no purpose except to make discourse more toxic.
Gitlab default branch name changes to main
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#12Another victim of this hysteria. Will surely make a point to switch it back every time I create a repo.
You sound more hysterical than they do. How badly does this affect you and your life, really?
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Master has multiple definitions, yours is not the same as the one git used.
Exactly, and gits is not the same one as a slave master.
Turns out it is:
> This term came from Bitkeeper, a predecessor to Git. Bitkeeper referred to the source of truth as the "master repository" and other copies as "slave repositories".
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#14That saves two bytes.
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#16I for one think it's great that people are willing to make things a little more accessible for more people. If people want to be part of our community of developers I think it's great that these organizations listen to people who might have a problem with certain terminology. Even though I don't have a problem with those terms, I think it's still worth evaluating if they're worth keeping if it makes it harder for someone to be part of our community.
Hope more of you feel the same, as I'm getting kind of tired of the "the SJWs are at it again" shtick. There's also legitimate reasons to why these changes are necessary outside of some loud obnoxious screams from certain SJW-like people, that yes, are annoying to hear. Some of the response from our community to "push back against this" is just equally weird, tone deaf and childish however.
Say what you want, be we all know we've done silly refactors over smaller things. So don't make this bigger than it should be: it's about making our community bigger by making it easier for people to be part of it!
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#17We should probably stop referring to nice teeth as straight and white too. Wouldn’t want to offend.
If you can’t disambiguate software development from human abuse the problem is your grasp of semantics not society.
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#18I wonder if a master's degree is also offensive.
Good question - the appears to be "no", since it has a clear origin and meaning unrelated to master/slave relationships.
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#19I wonder if a master's degree is also offensive.
Yes, conscientious people already call main degree/bedroom/bathrooms etc.
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#20Another victim of this hysteria. Will surely make a point to switch it back every time I create a repo.
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