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A step-by-step guide for your company's Git master to main migration
- fuckyah 6y agoseriously?
- k7f 6y agoO tempora, o mores!
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- sudeepj 6y ago> The word master is too closely related to the word slave, a practice that goes against B12’s values. Isn't this is a bit of over correction? Check out the synonyms of the word 'master' https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/master https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/master. It has lot of other meanings which does not mean 'master-slave'. Also by this weird logic, the company mastercard should change their name.
- free_rms 6y agoMastercard has a billion dollar ad budget. This guy's startup has to be more innovative to get press.
- Rafert 6y agoApparently git copied the 'master' name from bitkeeper, where it was used in conjunction with 'slave' branches: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2019-May/msg00066.html https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2019-May/...
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- wayneftw 6y agoThat’s not true. Follow this link to the Twitter thread where the guy (Pete Baudris) who picked the term as used in Git, explains his reasoning. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23533096 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23533096
- jmisavage 6y agoThat makes sense, but master recordings also have the concept of slave reels [1]. He probably wasn't aware of it, heck I only found out about it a few days ago [1] https://www.sweetwater.com/insync/slave-reel/ https://www.sweetwater.com/insync/slave-reel/
- slap 6y agoI'm so glad that US police brutality is now sorted out. Thanks Adam.
- sjaak 6y agoFrom the post: > "..., removing the problematic term master." What about my Master of Science degree? Must that be renamed too? The only thing that is problematic here is the virtue signalling. Please make it stop.
- blastonico 6y agoOf course!! Following the logic here, if we have Masters of Science we obligatory have Slaves of Science too.
- sebazzz 6y agoWhich must be the bachelors of science then.
- fizixer 6y agoShould we remove slavery from the history books? It's very offensive. Just asking questions.
- steve_taylor 6y agoI rewrite history with git all the time.
- sebazzz 6y agoDon't force push it.
- vlovich123 6y agoI personally don’t care about this change (name your branches whatever the fuck you want), but I do care about flawed arguments. > The terms we pick for our tools matter, and our current default branch name of master is problematic. The word master is too closely related to the word slave I’ve heard this argument now several times and I’m still confused. There are several definitions for the word master. The one that seems most appropo for source code management is: > an original movie, recording, or document from which copies can be made I don’t see how that one carries any kind of connotation of slavery. I’ve heard a similar line of reasoning for blacklist/whitelist because “our culture has a connotation of black = bad, white = good” ignoring that that connotation isn’t racial and is cross-cultural. Black sheep are undesirable because you can’t dye their wool. The term blackball is referring to a historical voting practice that had nothing to do with race (and likely where blacklist comes from with whitelist naturally coming many years later). Can someone please provide a logically valid argument here based on facts? I’m eager to educate myself.
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- hoten 6y agoI understand your frustration. But the only fact that matters is that marginalized people face various levels of racism every day. This naming issue is a small, unintentional matter–I don't believe _anyone_ is saying otherwise. But some people don't get a chance to dive into etymology before making the connection with slavery. I'm thinking renaming isn't so much the important bit, but it is an easy first step: what real, impactful changes can we as technologists make happen next?
- vlovich123 6y agoHow are you measuring impact? My concern with this is it’s easy to write off as virtue signaling. Right now is a moment where you can get people who wouldn’t agree with you on board with deep important structural changes. Going after something like this feels like just a waste of energy and distracts from those problems, especially when you’re wrong on the facts
- kikesDidSlavery 6y agoGo fuck yourself you seedy jewish infiltrator. The programming community is identity-less. Nobody gives a fuck who you are as long as you do good work. Go back to the libshit college you belong in and fuck yourself.
- steve_taylor 6y agoThis is racism of low expectations. The notion of a master copy isn’t offensive. Master/slave is. Please assume that black Americans are as intelligent as anyone else and can tell the difference. There’s no need to change the master branch to something else.
- beyondcompute 6y ago“A step-by-step guide on how to revert your civilization from color-blind progress-loving one to witch-hunting ideologue-driven bloviating and virtue signaling one”.
- fouric 6y agoThis article would have been significantly better without the pervasive virtue signaling. > this helpful writeup from the IETF This isn't correct. The linked document is a draft submitted to the IETF, and as far as I know, there is 0 actual affiliation with the IETF itself.
- jerzyt 6y agoIf the terms master/slave are so offensive is the actual slavery also offensive to you? If it is, what are you doing to stop the slave trade in Libya? If nothing, then all you're doing is empty virtue signaling.
- blastonico 6y agoPlot twist: in martial arts, black belts are masters and white belts are the dumbasses. We need to change it too, right? There shouldn't exist a martial art master AND the highest levels should be black&white belts. This is getting insane.