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Is Github still the type of place that changes your branch names from master to main, (for your own good of course) and bans usage of the word "meritocracy" so

by yucky 5y ago

Is Github still the type of place that changes your branch names from master to main, (for your own good of course) and bans usage of the word "meritocracy" so as not to hurt people's feelings?

ecf 5y ago
> changes your branch names from master to main It’s a trivial name change, stay mad.
- dogleash 5y ago
  >It’s a trivial name change Tell that to a decade of tooling, training and documentation. I don't necessarily have a problem with the change, but I wish people would quit telling me it's nothing. It's not the end of the world or anything, but next time someone who's trying to coast by with the least git knowledge possible (90% of the office) needs help because of this, or is just frustrated that there's another complication they have to remember should I tell them it's "a trivial name change"? I might as well say "it's just a directed acyclic graph of revisions." That's also technically true, but I might as well tell them to go fuck themselves. [1] [1] http://howfuckedismydatabase.com/nosql/ http://howfuckedismydatabase.com/nosql/
  - alexk307 5y ago
    If you can't undertake renaming a branch, or tolerate being forced to learn how to rename a branch, then I'm not sure if you really belong in the technical field of software.
    - deleted 5y ago
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    - yucky 5y ago
      And what is the argument for forcing that change? Master has nothing to do with slavery, so what is the argument?
- yucky 5y ago
  If it was trivial, then it was unnecessary. And yet...
alexk307 5y ago
They didn't change anything retroactively, calm down or host your own git server.
sg47 5y ago
Is America the kind of place that bans slavery and bans usage of the n-word so as not to hurt people's feelings?
- ostenning 5y ago
  That idea is far removed from the debate of a meritocracy vs employment quotas based on ethnicity. Thats the real discussion here.
- ipaddr 5y ago
  Yes America and most places have banned slavery. No it's part of popular music and is protected speech.

by yucky 5y ago

Is Github still the type of place that changes your branch names from master to main, (for your own good of course) and bans usage of the word "meritocracy" so as not to hurt people's feelings?

ecf 5y ago

> changes your branch names from master to main It’s a trivial name change, stay mad.

dogleash 5y ago
>It’s a trivial name change Tell that to a decade of tooling, training and documentation. I don't necessarily have a problem with the change, but I wish people would quit telling me it's nothing. It's not the end of the world or anything, but next time someone who's trying to coast by with the least git knowledge possible (90% of the office) needs help because of this, or is just frustrated that there's another complication they have to remember should I tell them it's "a trivial name change"? I might as well say "it's just a directed acyclic graph of revisions." That's also technically true, but I might as well tell them to go fuck themselves. [1] [1] http://howfuckedismydatabase.com/nosql/ http://howfuckedismydatabase.com/nosql/
- alexk307 5y ago
  If you can't undertake renaming a branch, or tolerate being forced to learn how to rename a branch, then I'm not sure if you really belong in the technical field of software.
  - deleted 5y ago
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  - yucky 5y ago
    And what is the argument for forcing that change? Master has nothing to do with slavery, so what is the argument?
yucky 5y ago
If it was trivial, then it was unnecessary. And yet...

alexk307 5y ago

They didn't change anything retroactively, calm down or host your own git server.

sg47 5y ago

Is America the kind of place that bans slavery and bans usage of the n-word so as not to hurt people's feelings?

ostenning 5y ago
That idea is far removed from the debate of a meritocracy vs employment quotas based on ethnicity. Thats the real discussion here.
ipaddr 5y ago
Yes America and most places have banned slavery. No it's part of popular music and is protected speech.