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Ask HN: Do you find the master branch offensive?
I'll be honest, I don't understand North American outrageism and victimhood, it's just... weird.
Anyhow in the wake of renaming Redis terminology a new thing started where people want to rename the master branch because it's supposedly triggering to PoC.
- mtmail 8y agoI thought the slave wording (or combination) was the offensive one. For branches I assume master refers to "an original from which copies can be made" (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/master https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/master)
- eadmund 8y agoNo, of course not. What sane and well-adjusted person could? It's patently inoffensive.
- itamarhaber 8y agoFYIs - Redis does not use the name "master" for its main branch. This was changed years ago to "unstable". As a bona fide lunatic, I find this offensive and is that a pink flying elephant?