• kaida@feddit.de
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      10 months ago

      I‘m anti-slavery but that’s just not the reason I use main as default branch

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        10 months ago

        yup same. I hate slavery just like anyone else but fail to see how naming a branch master has to do anything with it. Next are they gonna claim that master’s degree is pro slavery or something

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          10 months ago

          I put this one in the same camp as whichever well-meaning person came up with “happy holidays”. Other religions and cultures don’t mind Westerners celebrating Christmas, and over-corrections like this just give fuel to the “political correctness gone mad” (now re-branded as anti-woke) crowd.

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            Happy Holidays makes perfect sense. You can start saying it in early December, whereas if you say Merry Christmas in early December, you seem like you’re not very good with dates. Or maybe you’re one of those people who’s really obsessed with Christmas. I’ll say Happy Holidays until around the 23rd, when I’ll say Merry Christmas until the 26th, back to Happy Holidays until the 31st, when I say Happy New Year.

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            although in the context of version control, the term master simply refers to the gold master, a term borrowed from the recording industry which refers to the final mixed version of a recording, and does not have a corresponding slave.

            Either way, I think “main branch” is easier to say, so it’s a win.