I dislike this name change for almost the same reason. I switch back to master on every new project.
GitHub, fuck your name change
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Re: GitHub, fuck your name change
#252I fight against this useless political correctness with my own, albeit invisible, rebellion:
I've set repository default branch to `master` [1] on Github.
I've created init.templateDir with HEAD set to `master` [2]
That way, whenever I init a new repo, either locally or via Github, the default branch is master, not main.
Re: GitHub, fuck your name change
#253I'm a bit late to the game, but I don't understand what this fuss is all about, from a technical point of view. I just created a git repo this morning and the default branch was named "master" (using the git command line). Then I pushed it to github to make it visible, as I have done several times before. The command line instructions at the "new repository" interface on github suggest changing the branch name to mai…
Sure, it’s fine and easy if you’re starting a project today. But if you have any build or deployment automation that interacts with git repos for existing projects it will be broken by the change.
Existing projects are impacted by a changed default for new repositories how?
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#255Christ, I agree with this article so much it hurts. I am convinced future people will find this whole saga quite an interesting anecdote of how, for a period of time, _appearing_ to be "anti-racist" was far more important than doing anything positive. As an aside I find it highly amusing watching the proponents of such changes eat themselves (see Twitch: womxn debacle).
I think fighting against racism and sexism is a good fight, and absolutely worth fighting for.
With that said - those are quite low-hanging fruits, if someone wants to engage in virtue signaling. And many companies do.
I also think that classism is an equally big problem in certain "elite" sectors. The diversity there is good, but most of the people - diverse in race or gender - still hail from the same socio-economic groups.
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#256I feel like this topic has been discussed a lot already, but I think it's important to keep pushing back against useless wasted man-hours like this effort is. I live in a country that was almost entirely enslaved by foreigners for ~700 years. I've discussed this rename with dozens of engineers in my country. Without exception, every single one of them thinks it's completely ridiculous. We need to keep voicing these t…
Same here in germany. When we hear the word master, most people think of the master in karate kid or the master degree of a university. I think only in the usa people are so full of hate that they directly think of bad stuff.
"I'm in the USA. I think only in Germany are people so full of themselves that they over-generalize entire nations with their own ignorant assumptions."
That would be a rather rude, dare I say hateful thing for me to say, wouldn't it? In reality, I really enjoyed all the places in Germany I've visited, and most of my interactions with German folk that I've interacted with socially and professionally over the years. I especially enjoyed taking a technical and engineering German language course, so I can appreciate words like "Kaftfahrzeug-Haftpflichtversicherung" and "benzinbetriebenes Motorsystem". I wouldn't think to make such a comment about the German people, like you did about people in the USA.
Re: GitHub, fuck your name change
#257I feel like this topic has been discussed a lot already, but I think it's important to keep pushing back against useless wasted man-hours like this effort is. I live in a country that was almost entirely enslaved by foreigners for ~700 years. I've discussed this rename with dozens of engineers in my country. Without exception, every single one of them thinks it's completely ridiculous. We need to keep voicing these t…
It was amusing to see the GitLab ticket where they try to orchestrate the change. It’s still going on. At least 100 people involved and multiple tickets open for an entirely pointless change.
Take a look at CIA's "The Simple Sabotage Field Manual" from 1944 (declassified 2008). Under the section "General Interference with Organizations and Production" it recommends among other things:
- "Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible"
- "Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions."
Re: GitHub, fuck your name change
#258I feel like this topic has been discussed a lot already, but I think it's important to keep pushing back against useless wasted man-hours like this effort is. I live in a country that was almost entirely enslaved by foreigners for ~700 years. I've discussed this rename with dozens of engineers in my country. Without exception, every single one of them thinks it's completely ridiculous. We need to keep voicing these t…
>We need to keep voicing these thoughts so that decision-makers in large companies have a chance to hear us and realize that they should focus on more useful issues instead. I suppose they are not doing it for your feeling's sake. They are doing it to avoid being a target of a woke mob feigning offense for their own ideological gain in the on-going identity culture war which is happening in the west.
> avoid being a target of a woke mob
What are they going to do? Stop using GitHub? Good f ing riddance
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#259This whole change seem like rather Anglo-centric. Why don't we start utlizing other languages and scripts to be truly inclusive. Some Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Russian, Arabic, Hebrew or Sanskrit would do wonders. Or maybe even smaller language like Finnish, pää would be entirely fine and neutral alternative to main or even master...
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#260A good article about this naming issue - https://reason.com/2020/08/12/is-your-master-bedroom-racist/ For me, it seems like since no one dares to solve real problems like Police violence, income gap, real racism that's ingrained in the society (like people calling the police because a black guy is wandering around), they pick up some non-issue and dress it like a problem and solve it.
So you think Github should try and solve those issues, I agree.