Ridiculous. The default branch being named "master" had nothing to do with the institution of slavery.
It was about state's rights.
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#42I don't really care much about the culture wars, but to me its really a sign of the times that stuff like this scores more points than actual innovation.
Re: On 2022-04-05, the default branch will be renamed from “master” to “main”
#43I know why they are doing this, and I think it’s silly, but I hope that all three people who were offended by the original terms are happy now.
Well, I'm offended by "main" now. The major reference is the "main and subordinate clause", which is just sugarcoating the power difference as in master and slave. "Master" references mainly mastery, being good at it. Master is an official craftsman job title. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meister μήστωρ, Meister, Magister. You wont find someone who dares to rename masterpieces to mainpieces.
> You wont find someone who dares to rename masterpieces to mainpieces
And yet you can have a sidepiece...
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#44Re: On 2022-04-05, the default branch will be renamed from “master” to “main”
#45>> Our entire product codebase and build pipeline is now broken.
> Sorry . We've tried very hard to message this over the past 3 months, emitting warning messages. Please also note that it appears GitHub Actions also appears to be having issues, which is unrelated to our change. If you are seeing general build failures, it might be due to the GitHub issue.
Apparently not sorry enough to not shoulder unnecessary work on people for the sole purpose of powertripping and proclaiming their own amazing goodness.
Re: On 2022-04-05, the default branch will be renamed from “master” to “main”
#46Completely useless action.
Not useless: They got to feel good about themselves and saddle people with hours of unnecessary work as the price of their own edification.
Power, remember, is the ability to get people to do what you want them to, and it is felt when it is exercised. They exercised power so they could smell the sweet aroma of their own farts.
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#47Is this strictly a western phenomenon or a United States phenomenon? I'm generally curious because I live in the US and I feel like this is very much culturally limited to the US, but I could be totally wrong. I visited most of the world but as a tourist you don't always see deep cultural problems that may be present. I do know the US education system teaches a very United States centric view of slavery. It's literal…
It emanates out from the US for the most part, but the mentality has definitely infected most of the West.
In the UK, for example, police literally collect "non-crime hate incidents" and add them to people's criminal record. No due process, no actual convictions of crime, but you get a record of heresy accusations if you ask the government whether someone's broken the law.
Re: On 2022-04-05, the default branch will be renamed from “master” to “main”
#48I know why they are doing this, and I think it’s silly, but I hope that all three people who were offended by the original terms are happy now.
Well, I'm offended by "main" now. The major reference is the "main and subordinate clause", which is just sugarcoating the power difference as in master and slave. "Master" references mainly mastery, being good at it. Master is an official craftsman job title. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meister μήστωρ, Meister, Magister. You wont find someone who dares to rename masterpieces to mainpieces.
> You wont find someone who dares to rename masterpieces to mainpieces.
I guarantee you there is an activist insane enough to do just that.
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#49Thank goodness. Every time I merged into the “master” branch, I felt the world was that much closer to bringing back slavery.
From now on whenever the topic of slaves comes up, I’m going to refer to the masters as mains.
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#50I prefer "main" as it's 2 chars shorter, and more accurately descriptive. The years-long transition where both namings are in use, will however be worse than either alone. This is always the way: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EI4EJwqX0AAvnxD.png
>and more accurately descriptive. Not really. "master" clearly meant "master copy" - the copy with everything in it. What does "main" mean? There is no "main". Git is distributed.
> Git is distributed
It's distributed into https://github.com
i.e. not in any real sense at all.