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> no one is safer or feels better Clearly some feel better. I personally like the name “main” better. But it is truly a pain in the neck that different piece
by sshine 4y ago
> no one is safer or feels better
Clearly some feel better.
I personally like the name “main” better.
But it is truly a pain in the neck that different pieces of software and even different distributions of the same software now disagree about the default.
I’ve got a handful of active projects that go together that differ on master/main because they were created by different softwares.
I’d prefer “hitler” if everyone could just agree to always pick that. GitHub are the big pushers of this culture change. If they succeed, I salute them.
- Alupis 4y agoThere was zero disagreement about what to call the default branch in git prior to this linguistic crusade. GitHub practically invented the exact situation you're experiencing now by changing to main for all new repos. Git itself still defaults to master. Everything else is not the default and is the root cause for the uncertainty.