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I always thought "master" was an odd name for the primary branch anyway. Hopefully most of us can agree on that, even if we don't agree on the motivation for th
by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago
I always thought "master" was an odd name for the primary branch anyway. Hopefully most of us can agree on that, even if we don't agree on the motivation for the change.
- 52-6F-62 6y agoIt seemed natural to me, but I came from a place where "master recording" was the reference record. But it does make zero difference what the name is, as long as it's descriptive.
- oblio 6y agoMain is pretty solid as a term, though. And the amount of people who know what a master recording is is minuscule in my experience, especially among non-native English speakers. Main is kind of obvious, even if you don't know a lot about English.
- 52-6F-62 6y agoSure. I don't really care, myself. Besides, it's just how Microsoft is deciding they want their service to work by default. It's hardly even a shift. I don't understand all the huff. The branch names were designed to be mutable in the first place.