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Because 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
by Chyzwar 6y ago
Because 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.