I don't like everything becoming so Americanised.
Slavery is not a purely American institution.
Connecting it with skin colours, which is what this whole nonsense is about, is.
Deprecate Use of Master and Slave
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Re: Deprecate Use of Master and Slave
#12I don't like everything becoming so Americanised.
Are we even allowed to care about "master" and "slave"? I think it's cultural appropriation.
Re: Deprecate Use of Master and Slave
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
His response is the most reasonable one that I have seen through all of these, non-issue issues that have come up over this idea that master branch is actually referring to slavery. Id really wonder who even thought that master in the context of git was ever a reference to slavery. I have to think they were some high school/college student that some how made the connection while watching history channel late at night…
I think it's pretty obvious that master gets its taint from the common master-slave usage. That usage should be changed to leader/follower most likely. I haven't renamed my default branches, myself, because "master" alone does not imply master/slave.
It would have been interesting to do a wide spread survey for that prior to all this going down. I believe that it would have been an incredibly small number of people that would believe or make that connection.