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It's clear by all the negativity that people here care a lot about this, but I really don't understand why. What's so important about keeping the name of the b

It's clear by all the negativity that people here care a lot about this, but I really don't understand why. What's so important about keeping the name of the branch "master"?

postalrat 6y ago
What assumptions would you make if you say these three branches in a repo: trunk, master, main. Versus if you just saw trunk and main.
- mcphage 6y ago
  I think I'd be pretty confused in both cases—I've never seen people use "trunk" as a branch name, so I don't know what it would mean to them. I mean, personally I think "trunk" makes the most sense as the default branch, so I would like to assume that's the default branch, but, with 2 or 3 of them, I'd mostly wonder how they all got there.
- kortex 6y ago
  I'd look at the graph, cause sometimes you end up with a stale master/main and everyone pushing to "develop" and cutting releases from that. Heck, I worked on a repo where "master" was 2 years untouched, "rc" was like 8 months untouched and effectively deployment, "next" was effectively the release candidate but also used in production elsewhere, so it was gated like it was a master branch, and everything else was dev. Yeah.
mad182 6y ago
I personally don't care how it's named, but it seems silly to change a commonly used word because one of its multiple meanings in a completely different context is associated with something bad. If we are going this route, just in case we should also remove the word "default", because it means failure to repay a debt, to avoid upsetting somebody in a tough economic situation.
- mcphage 6y ago
  > but it seems silly Yeah, it is pretty silly. But we do a lot of silly things; this one seems pretty far down the list. > we should also remove the word "default", because it means failure to repay a debt, to avoid upsetting somebody in a tough economic situation That's an interesting idea. Are you personally offended by the term 'default'?
ThrowawayR2 6y ago
I don't particularly care about the change but I do care that my status as a minority is being used by people with an agenda to justify token changes with no meaningful effects and that they're getting praised for it. This is not progress, this is trivialization of being a minority by outsiders.

It's clear by all the negativity that people here care a lot about this, but I really don't understand why. What's so important about keeping the name of the branch "master"?

postalrat 6y ago

What assumptions would you make if you say these three branches in a repo: trunk, master, main. Versus if you just saw trunk and main.

mcphage 6y ago
I think I'd be pretty confused in both cases—I've never seen people use "trunk" as a branch name, so I don't know what it would mean to them. I mean, personally I think "trunk" makes the most sense as the default branch, so I would like to assume that's the default branch, but, with 2 or 3 of them, I'd mostly wonder how they all got there.
kortex 6y ago
I'd look at the graph, cause sometimes you end up with a stale master/main and everyone pushing to "develop" and cutting releases from that. Heck, I worked on a repo where "master" was 2 years untouched, "rc" was like 8 months untouched and effectively deployment, "next" was effectively the release candidate but also used in production elsewhere, so it was gated like it was a master branch, and everything else was dev. Yeah.

mad182 6y ago

I personally don't care how it's named, but it seems silly to change a commonly used word because one of its multiple meanings in a completely different context is associated with something bad. If we are going this route, just in case we should also remove the word "default", because it means failure to repay a debt, to avoid upsetting somebody in a tough economic situation.

mcphage 6y ago
> but it seems silly Yeah, it is pretty silly. But we do a lot of silly things; this one seems pretty far down the list. > we should also remove the word "default", because it means failure to repay a debt, to avoid upsetting somebody in a tough economic situation That's an interesting idea. Are you personally offended by the term 'default'?

ThrowawayR2 6y ago

I don't particularly care about the change but I do care that my status as a minority is being used by people with an agenda to justify token changes with no meaningful effects and that they're getting praised for it. This is not progress, this is trivialization of being a minority by outsiders.