so what do you think about the "master is bad and racist" thing?

I am kind of in between finding it cool and just annoying.

Eh its weird, it refers a master copy, gold, finalized.

But if there's people that are genuinely offended by it, meh who cares about a change, its just a name, changing takes a whole 20 seconds.
I'm just gonna name my master branches to "Perfect Sandwich" or something with condiment branches.

(though i think GH just wants to be ahead of any possible controversy than it being an actual thing people have complained about)

I don't think anyone cares about the change on the surface. If they were just going to change it for a more semantic reason then literally no one would care.

Devs dislike the constant weak pandering from the tech industry that does fuck all.

@dakkarant Trust me, changing something as fundamental as the default branch name is no trivial matter.

It's more about the motivation than the actual change

Best solution would be to let users set a default master branch name

@dakkarant If they absolutely have to change the default (which they probably will) then I hope that's how they'll do it

But my main thought would be about the whole thing.

"Why are people so upset and scrambling to make excuses to justify their opposition, its a semantic change, just tell GH that it might mess with CI pipelines, instead of writing paragraphs of 'But in 1865!...' "

I personally think they should leave these engineering terms alone. It’s getting very old and I’m really tired of the tech industry doing meaningless nomenclature changes because #muhfeelings.

These terms exist and have for a long time. Everyone understands the terms, they don’t need adjusting

Definitely gonna save a few lives with all that cutting edge improvements!
Authorities are gonna stop systematic racism asap just because of a stupid gesture of renaming crap. 😐

I do care about the change but solely because it's driven by an out-of-context situation/decision.

I fucking hate it when a decision is made based on something that's out of context.

This is a huge deal. Because it happens in small steps people don't see how big an impact this has.

https://merriam-webster.com/diction...

If you think it's just master you are wrong. It's slave, blacklist, whitelist, things that might have the word boob in it.
Soon we will have a tv-series called the blocklist. The worst worst to ban out of the top list is slave. It's just as stupid as naming all intimacy hugging. Just removing the words does not remove the concept. It just makes slavery and rape hard to explain and novel again for most people.

i'm like it's taken out of context not racist