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
Tldr: They’re a reminder of slavery, some people feel uncomfortable using / hearing them, it would not be hard for you to make their lifes a bit better by not using them but you can obviously do whatever you like.
That isn’t remotely what they said. And if you seriously think we need to have “master branch” on GitHub in order to remember slavery I don’t know what to tell you.
So an inadvertent reminder/source of discomfort means someone is advocating for something?
Are you sure I’m the one who needs help interpreting text? On want planet could you read that as an accusation of being “Pro-slavery”? Like in favor of it. That’s patently absurd. And you know it’s absurd, you just don’t care because you’re trying to create the least charitable interpretation of someone’s text despite the fact that they were very clear with their language.
You also didn’t respond to the bit about how we don’t need “master branch” to remember slavery happened. So I’ll just assume you realized that was a ridiculous thing to say.
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.
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.
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
Bachelor’s degree means you’re not married, so obviously an incel.
Who’s “they”?
Idk, same people who think naming git branches master is somehow pro slavery? Whoever they are
It’s not “pro slavery” and that has never been the framing of the issue. This is disingenuous.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/06/us/racism-words-phrases-slavery-trnd/index.html
Tldr: They’re a reminder of slavery, some people feel uncomfortable using / hearing them, it would not be hard for you to make their lifes a bit better by not using them but you can obviously do whatever you like.
RIght, because the best way to stop bad things from happening is to have everyone forget they happened…
That isn’t remotely what they said. And if you seriously think we need to have “master branch” on GitHub in order to remember slavery I don’t know what to tell you.
If you can’t even interpret that little text, you should go back to grade 1 school
So an inadvertent reminder/source of discomfort means someone is advocating for something?
Are you sure I’m the one who needs help interpreting text? On want planet could you read that as an accusation of being “Pro-slavery”? Like in favor of it. That’s patently absurd. And you know it’s absurd, you just don’t care because you’re trying to create the least charitable interpretation of someone’s text despite the fact that they were very clear with their language.
You also didn’t respond to the bit about how we don’t need “master branch” to remember slavery happened. So I’ll just assume you realized that was a ridiculous thing to say.
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.
The term “master” is often used with the term “slave” in computing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master-slave_(technology)
So it wouldn’t be odd to assume that git’s use of the term “master” also refers to slavery.
Either way, I think “main branch” is easier to say, so it’s a win.