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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".
I 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 som…
>I for one think it's great that people are willing to make things a little more accessible for more people. How does this make anything more accessible for anyone?
That saves two bytes.
I 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 som…
>I for one think it's great that people are willing to make things a little more accessible for more people. How does this make anything more accessible for anyone?
These are usually not effects experienced by the majority that's fine with those terms however, which makes it hard to empathize with people that do struggle. Unfortunately, people seem to think that rationality without empathy is always the road to a good conclusion. When you do it in these contexts, however, you're actively excluding those who you fail to empathize with.
I 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 som…
The number of people that _genuinely_ have a problem with the word "master" (excluding all the weird (white) twitter people) is close to zero.
Do they exclude people with main degrees? Chess grand mains? Main painters?
And don't get me started on the racist audio recording studios ...
I think the default branch name change has been good for the ecosystem; “master” didn’t always make sense for whatever workflow was used, and it was hardcoded all over a bunch of tooling. I think “main” makes more sense, regardless of politics, and this encouraged a lot of software to make the default branch configurable.
If “main” is a better description and offends fewer people, why not switch? Just seems like opposing a very minor change for the sake of it.
I 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.