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13 pointssurfer78375y ago8 comments

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rvz5y ago· 1 in thread

Please ask GitHub to tell MasterCard to change their 'offensive' and 'oppressive' name. /s

It is NOT inclusive. :red_angry_face /s

> https://github.com/mastercard

denysvitali5y ago

sed -i -e 's/master/main/g'

I wonder what it could go wrong. This will be super funny when we'll see Golang libraries switching to the main branch instead. Lots of CI pipelines breaking because of that I guess

0_gravitas5y ago

Thankfully I create all my projects on the CLI first, so my immediate workflow isn't currently going to be upended by yet another SaaS putting a gun to my head and telling me its making a change and I better play along if I don't want to lose everything!

A little overly-dramatic for this particular instance, but this and the following results should be a very good signifier at just __how much__ power GitHub (i.e. Microsoft) has over the entire OSS/Non-OSS/Developer community (how many package/plugin-managers and other pieces of software pull from GitHub first/by default?), and how wantonly they will wield it. This change is going to most likely break a non-zero amount of workflows (and could you blame people for expecting what has been the standard convention since the dawn of time (exaggeration) to stay the same?), and for what? Something with no technical reason whatsoever!

zach_garwood5y ago

I always assumed the "master" in this context to be like a master copy -- the original or definitive version of something -- and not a position of authority.

heapslip5y ago

Is there any sane reason for this whole trend? I immediately place the people who advocate for silly things like this in the stupid bucket, but is there any real reason to do this, apart from avoiding hurting the feelings of a few dandelions (which are few and have less contributions, because they spend more time bitching than working)?

harryparkdotio5y ago

something that isn't mentioned in readme is how GitHub might solve for git.io links and references to repositories which include the branch name, or expect a master branch to exist

it would be interesting if in Git, a branch "alias" or "redirect" were able to be created to prevent (or at least reduce) the possibility of experiencing broken links

davidtranjs5y ago

As an Asian I don’t like this change but I think this change means a lot for the black programmer community!

Btw, how about the blacklist and whitelist? Are we going to replace those terminologies too?

Okawari5y ago

Great that you can opt out.

Still a shame that this we now have two competing conventions what I consider to be no discernable reason.

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