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Just curious - what reasons do people have for not using master?

DangitBobby 6y ago
Though in the context of git, master is not intended to be a reference to master/slave [1], it is ostensibly widely mis-identified as such. The change therefore is being made by many as an attempt to be more inclusive. I pulled this [2] Bitbucket blog entry from the original article if you want to read what they have to say. 1. https://twitter.com/xpasky/status/1271477451756056577?s=20 https://twitter.com/xpasky/status/1271477451756056577?s=20 2. https://bitbucket.org/blog/moving-away-from-master-as-the-default-name-for-branches-in-git https://bitbucket.org/blog/moving-away-from-master-as-the-de...
- war1025 6y ago
  I feel like on the one hand my opinion is "this is stupid and doesn't matter", which makes me think the change was not needed. But also my opinion is "this is stupid and doesn't matter", which makes me not really care that they did I guess.
  - sharken 6y ago
    I care if stuff breaks for no good reason and this is one of them. But Microsoft is establishing a history of being political correct instead of doing the sensible thing. Calling the default branch master is a design choice and nothing more, if you think otherwise the problem is yours.
    - yboris 6y ago
      Just hypothetically, is there any word, if it were originally chosen as the default, and now people wanted to change it, that would make you change your mind? What if the default branch was called "slut" or "faggot" for whatever reason?
  - gempir 6y ago
    This change isn't done because master is super offensive or racist in the context of git. It's done to show some kind of support to the movement. Might not much very much, but I think showing you care is something. If it breaks a bit of shitty tooling that relies on hardcoded values, then I think we can live through that.
    - crististm 6y ago
      I think that propaganda got the better of you. But I can live with that if you can.
- umvi 6y ago
  "ignorance is causing people to take offense when none was intended and instead of trying to educate people we can instead just make a greater effort to not offend them"

Though in the context of git, master is not intended to be a reference to master/slave [1], it is ostensibly widely mis-identified as such. The change therefore is being made by many as an attempt to be more inclusive. I pulled this [2] Bitbucket blog entry from the original article if you want to read what they have to say. 1. https://twitter.com/xpasky/status/1271477451756056577?s=20 https://twitter.com/xpasky/status/1271477451756056577?s=20 2. https://bitbucket.org/blog/moving-away-from-master-as-the-default-name-for-branches-in-git https://bitbucket.org/blog/moving-away-from-master-as-the-de...

war1025 6y ago
I feel like on the one hand my opinion is "this is stupid and doesn't matter", which makes me think the change was not needed. But also my opinion is "this is stupid and doesn't matter", which makes me not really care that they did I guess.
- sharken 6y ago
  I care if stuff breaks for no good reason and this is one of them. But Microsoft is establishing a history of being political correct instead of doing the sensible thing. Calling the default branch master is a design choice and nothing more, if you think otherwise the problem is yours.
  - yboris 6y ago
    Just hypothetically, is there any word, if it were originally chosen as the default, and now people wanted to change it, that would make you change your mind? What if the default branch was called "slut" or "faggot" for whatever reason?
- gempir 6y ago
  This change isn't done because master is super offensive or racist in the context of git. It's done to show some kind of support to the movement. Might not much very much, but I think showing you care is something. If it breaks a bit of shitty tooling that relies on hardcoded values, then I think we can live through that.
  - crististm 6y ago
    I think that propaganda got the better of you. But I can live with that if you can.
umvi 6y ago
"ignorance is causing people to take offense when none was intended and instead of trying to educate people we can instead just make a greater effort to not offend them"