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Master of Ceremony? Scrum Master? Master Chief? What are they on about?

• chinhodado 8y ago
  Not to mention the default main branch of a git repo is master
  • artursapek 8y ago
    git push origin unoffensive-term-for-dominant-entity
    • martenb 8y ago
      Try "main"
  • sytse 8y ago
    We won't change that until git does. Of course you can customize your default branch.
  • tomjakubowski 8y ago
    Unlike the 'master'/'maintainer' role, the main branch does not directly correspond to a person.
    • sieabahlpark 8y ago
      A master/slave DB isn't a person either and look where that ended up.
  • mappu 8y ago
    Hg sensibly calls the default branch `default`.
    • Qwertie 8y ago
      Git sensibly calls the master branch `master`.
    • BigJono 8y ago
      That's funny, because it's pretty common to set a 'dev' branch to default and reserve the master branch for production code.
  • berti 8y ago
    Which no doubt comes from the term "master copy", which has a long established, and quite precise meaning. Choosing a different meaning arbitrarily(or actually, quite deliberately) is disingenuous at best.
  • NicoJuicy 8y ago
    Where is the slave
• sytse 8y ago
  GitLab is about removing the needless ceremony to getting your application deployed.
• diN0bot 8y ago
  slavery, jim crow. being called or calling someone else "master" feels deeply troubling to many people in the US, and likely around the world.
  • artursapek 8y ago
    All of you whiteys should go tell Q-Tip and Phife Dawg to stop calling themselves "MC", this is cracking me up
  • hyperbovine 8y ago
    Calling someone master can deeply offend. Are we really at the point where we cannot distinguish between a human being and an incorporeal blob of computer code? Life is going to be really, unnecessarily challenging if you go through it bending over backwards to invent new ways to become upset.