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seeing all the pushback to the “rename the master branch” movement is disheartening. if renaming the branch makes even one current or future employee (or even a
by alwillis 6y ago
seeing all the pushback to the “rename the master branch” movement is disheartening. if renaming the branch makes even one current or future employee (or even an open source contributor feel more welcome!), why push back so hard on this?
https://twitter.com/vaidehijoshi/status/1271555823139876864?s=21 https://twitter.com/vaidehijoshi/status/1271555823139876864?...
- Chyzwar 6y agoBecause not all uses of "master" have negative connotations. I can support renaming master-slave, but git is not such case. There is pushback because it creates massive amount of work for us without a good reason. All CI/CD pipelines, scripts, tools. Integration fixes, regressions and failed deployments because branch was main not master.
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- alwillis 6y agoBecause not all uses of "master" have negative connotations. I can support renaming master-slave, but git is not such case. Turns out that Git’s use of master decends from a use that is about master/slave: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2019-May/msg00066.html https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2019-May/...
- Chyzwar 6y agoEvidence you use come from Gnome mailing list where Gnome maintainers where discussing unrelated issue.