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> the the use of certain terms of art in the field, like “fitness” is both ableist and discourages people from going into evolutionary biology. I want my maste
by valdiorn 4y ago
> the the use of certain terms of art in the field, like “fitness” is both ableist and discourages people from going into evolutionary biology.
I want my master branches back, GitHub.
- xwdv 4y agoWe still use master branches as part of our coding guidelines.
- mumblemumble 4y agoThis has got to be the only time in history that legions of non-Java programmers have stood up with united voices to bitterly decry. . . using a name that's terser and easier to type.
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- wffurr 4y agoI want human beings to not have been such a tire fire of a species capable of great cruelty to one another. Alas, we don’t always get what we want.
- azangru 4y agoIt's deeper than GitHub now. I believe git itself has changed the default name of the initial branch [0]. [0] - https://github.com/git/git/commit/028cb644ec6450fa9438ba6b6d100c0f34e029a5 https://github.com/git/git/commit/028cb644ec6450fa9438ba6b6d...
- JoeyBananas 4y agoI was not aware of this. The fact that this got through is maddening. There is a person who campaigned for 5+ years to get the term "index" changed to "staging." Everyone agreed with this change. There is a ton of evidence that it's better. The patch was written. But one person refused it and it got shut down. Edit: here is the actual link https://felipec.wordpress.com/2021/08/10/git-staging-area-rename/ https://felipec.wordpress.com/2021/08/10/git-staging-area-re...