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Thoughts?

We use "slavedriver" to show our support for all this bullshit.

politics, personal beliefs and morality aside. Completely objectively. It's plain bad design. Git can handle the string "master" as a branch name and it is not a reserved keyword or anything.

This means the service deliberately stops some words from working where they previously worked or are working on similar systems. Plain simply this means they removed options from the user and any design that results in less choices that's not due to technical limitations is a bad design. People behind this decision should be fired, as this opens up doors for competition and alternative solutions.

so it's both a bad business decision and a bad design decision.

Which stupid service is this that took it to the next level?

Just go with meister

What platform is this?

OK, "slavepunisher" it is.

try "littleNiggersWorking"

@gitpush GitHub under Microsoft rule

i think the error is because you don't have a branch named master. create one via terminal, push it to github and then make it the main branch

I'm at a compete loss. I cannot find this form anywhere on GitHub.

Maybe if @fullstackclown responded to the questions of platform I could at least pretend to be outraged at this.

not sure if this is a common topic right now, but at our company it was decided to no longer use "master" and "slave" terminology because it's not pc... 🤔

@sariel https://google.com/amp/s/...
Github certainly participated at least

@darkwind that's certainly old news though. They don't stop you from using master.

If anything, they have improved the experience by no longer forcing main to be the default branch.

You can set the default branch name for your org in your account settings.

Judging from the lack of details and little to no response from op I'm going to guess this post was supposed to be inflammatory in nature.

10/10 troll though

@soull00t and who made that decision?

I bet it never involved the developers....

If it ever happens where I'm at I'll ask them how much money they want us to spend on making the changes to our 100+ pipelines.

After that I'll ask how much money we should spend on updating documentation.

And after that I'll ask them what projects we should abandon to prioritize this dumbfuck change.

Finally, I'll ask them why they will accept a cost of $x but have yet to donate that amount to relevant charities, and further why I haven't received a yearly review and raise in two years.

If that doesn't make them stay in their lane I'll probably get halfway though the changes and just quit.

Like my 2022 motto says, Fuck em.

Just call it "m".

@sariel a dev working at systems engineering told me that they made this decision... (he was not involved in the decision). so i don't know the details...

but very good points you made, hadn't thought about all the actions required to implement this change. this makes this decision even more surprising... (also, i mean... it's not like master/slave had only negative connotation xD)

@soull00t So you have a mistress grade and can refer to the mistress copy (by the way this is what the word master comes from in git. Not even the master/slave combo). Can you flip the mistress switch to make it all go away, no? Better report this nonsense to the head mistress.

Context matters, just like black lives.

@soull00t I see your kung-fu is strong grasshopper, you have mastered it well.

I wonder if I could claim cultural appropriation due to my Asian heritage.

"You can't use that word like that! THAT'S OUR WORD!"

Language is fickle like that. A word only has meaning if you give it the power to do so.

In highschool I was bullied alot and was called faggot on a daily occurrence. No reason either, I'm heterosexual. The word used to bother me, like alot. One day after hearing it so many times the word lost all meaning to me and I just stopped reacting to it. This simple act of not acknowledging it gave me power over my bully. Whatever they said to me, didn't work. Eventually they stopped entirely.

I think what most people have problems with is just letting it go. The only power you have is how you react.

So if Microsoft wants to ban the use of "master" for some PC reason they totally should, but they can't complain when companies start to leave because their business process doesn't align

A catastrophe the likes of which humanity has never seen before. I don't think we can ever recover from this. What could we possibly do?

It's Bitbucket! And actually, with some workarounds I think you can still use master. But they have another text that soon it won't be allowed at all.

But jeez, all my custom aliases and such are still around the 'old' paradigm of 'master' branch... sigh

If you keep calling it “master”, you are a bad boy… call it “mistress”… 😈

@fullstackclown fuck I hate Atlassian.

@Hazarth man, how did I not see this comment. Agreed beyond 100% as I mentioned above, its going to fuck with a lot of aliases I have... heck, even pipelines at this point... sheesh

fucking culture fascists can go fuck right off.

go for plantationOwner then

and other branches:
feature1_nigga, feature2_nigga, etc.