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Gitlab default branch name changes to main
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Re: Gitlab default branch name changes to main
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
See, that would be making yourself a victim of "hysteria". If you just raised an eyebrow and moved on then your claim that it's "hysteria" might have more weight but you'd have less opportunity to grandstand about it. This is also an amusing choice of terminology because of the origin of the word hysteria but I'm going to guess you didn't do that on purpose.
Do we really have to examine the origin of every word we use rather than according its modern common usage and use in context?
We're not examining every word. This article is about examining a specific word, with a specific history, within a specific context.
Re: Gitlab default branch name changes to main
#53I 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…
Anyone who believes that "master" is some kind of slur and takes the opportunity to take offense over it is not someone you want causing problems in your organization.
I feel that way about people who lack empathy
Re: Gitlab default branch name changes to main
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
See, that would be making yourself a victim of "hysteria". If you just raised an eyebrow and moved on then your claim that it's "hysteria" might have more weight but you'd have less opportunity to grandstand about it. This is also an amusing choice of terminology because of the origin of the word hysteria but I'm going to guess you didn't do that on purpose.
Do we really have to examine the origin of every word we use rather than according its modern common usage and use in context?
Why are you so invested in something with so very little impact on you?
Re: Gitlab default branch name changes to main
#55I 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 don't like the continuing insinuation that there's "some loud obnoxious screams from certain SJW-like people".
Usually it's just loud obnoxious screams from Anti-SJW people, and people blindly following the call to arms against what they call "SJW bullshit".
Re: Gitlab default branch name changes to main
#56Another victim of this hysteria. Will surely make a point to switch it back every time I create a repo.
Whether it's called "master" or "main" affects me very little. Whether it's called "master" or "main" affects some people very much. I'm enough of a team player that I'm willing to make the switch to make others more comfortable.
Do you think they'll stop there? Revolutions are perpetual and once you have fed the beast, it comes back for more.
Re: Gitlab default branch name changes to main
#57I 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…
Anyone who believes that "master" is some kind of slur and takes the opportunity to take offense over it is not someone you want causing problems in your organization.
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Re: Gitlab default branch name changes to main
#58I 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…
Anyone who believes that "master" is some kind of slur and takes the opportunity to take offense over it is not someone you want causing problems in your organization.
Where is this imaginary line between “ok to be offended” and “not ok to be offended”? Who decides where that line is?
If you can trivially avoid even the risk of offending someone — especially in a professional context — then why wouldn’t you?
Re: Gitlab default branch name changes to main
#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
Good question - the appears to be "no", since it has a clear origin and meaning unrelated to master/slave relationships.
Agreed. Git has a very painful history of keeping master code where slave code in branches did all the work.
Did you read the linked post which explains the history of the term in git?
Re: Gitlab default branch name changes to main
#60Since we're talking about naming branches, what are your preferred names for branches ? I like 4-letter names:
- `main` points to the last release for libraries (along with tags for history)
- `prod` points to production in deployable projects (not libraries)
- `next` is the development branch for the next version
- `deps` is a temporary branch for dependency updates, squashed and merged regularly onto `next`