Changing default branch name from "master" to "main" is just one more entry in the already very long list of "things sane people must do because some retarded american woke up one day and decided to be offended".
I am so fucking tired of the entire world having to accommodate to the first-world-problems of some spoiled brat just because they happen to be american.

I ranted about the exact same thing long ago

To be fair, don't think being American or not had anything to do with it.

Just wokidiots finding reasons in places they don't really comprehend.

Make sure you also add some trans-gender stuff in the branch. But keep it non-binary at the same time.

@CoreFuxionX americans are the one and only demographics shoving their identity politics down everyone's throat. Ok, slavery was a bad thing... but why would the entire world have to cater for an american problem?

Who cares? you can call it:
Foo
Bar
Baz
Fizz
BUzz
Master
Main
IAMTHEGREATCORNILIO
Whatever

Srsly: No One Cares! And if you do, GTFO.

They will always find a way to be oppressed. These limp dicked ameritards

@magicMirror i care about real world politics of some spoiled cunts corrupting software world.

@magicMirror this same argument can be used against changing the name from master to main, I like it! It's just a branch name, if you really care enough for "master" to bother you, gtfo :)

This perfectly highlights how pointless changing the branch name is, and why I'm against it - all it serves is to make it look like people are helping a cause without actually doing anything real to help that cause. It's an empty action to try and make someone look good, that's it.

@magicMirror I do because I have 4 projects I need to keep aligned in a pipeline; 3 of them have master, 1 of them has main. It's not a big deal but I can't for the life of me see why would I have to adapt my pipelines because some american need to shove their political issues down my throat. Y'all have political issues it's fine by me, but for the life of me I can't see why it would be anyone's problem.

I complained a lot about the master-to-main rename a while back, but actually making the switch to main took maybe an afternoon and then I never really had to think about it again.

I guess if your CI pipelines are complicated then it might be an issue. I wrote a script that renamed the default branch to main on all my repos, cloned them, did a simple find/replace on the workflow definition files, and committed and pushed the changes. Easy.

Honestly it would have been more trouble in the long run to NOT make the change and deal with the probably-inevitable complaints from people who cared more than I did.

@EmberQuill it's not the end of the world, but I can't see the point of bothering literally every existing developer with a change that gives exactly 0 (zero) benefits... for something which wasn't problematic at all to begin with.

Imagine wasting something like 100s of millions of dollars worldwide because some woke ass programmer at github got their feelings hurt. Yeah there needs to be more competition in the software landscape. As we got too much time on our hands on this garbage.

@ostream first things first: nobody is attacking you, which means you can cut it with the name calling and chill the fuck out.

@IHateForALiving I really don't care what the default branch name is, and I had no reason to insist on keeping it the same. So I chose to put in an afternoon of work, one time, to rename everything I own. Pointless? Perhaps. But also incredibly trivial, so why not?

I spent more effort complaining about the change than actually doing it.

@ostream fair point, you take my upvote and I take the L.

Yeah it was pretty easy to rename the branch. I mean you can still call your branches "master" anyone.

And main is a perfectly good name for what master branch does

Out of all the naming things. This is probably the one I have the least issue with.

Master/slave on the other hand, grinds my gears. What alternatives describe that relationship better?

@aviophile Meh. IDC about the reasons for naming stuff.

@alturnativ Yup. Any good reason to rename? Sure. Go ahead. Bad reason? Sure. Go ahead. I don't fukin care. Just stick with a consistent names.

@IHateForALiving You actually have a good reason to *not* make a change. Make sure the managers know how much it costs to keep the inconsistency going. Say - 2 hours per week. 54*2h*$$$=lots of money!

Many, many Americans agree with you. It's getting absolutely absurd. Someday, they'll want to change some deep engineering system that has real-world safety consequences and people will die or be injured. I hope there's someone to sue good and HARD when that happens.

@ostream your degenerate kind gives a shit about branch name.

@EmberQuill because it is backed by real world politics, not tech related necessity. What if GitHub forced people not use offensive variable names? Sure it is an automateable change but bullshit creeps in if not opposed.

@aviophile Well, they're not forcing you to stop using master, so that comparison is a bit flawed. They changed their default for new repos but you don't have to use that default setting if you don't want to.

Nobody's forcing anything. It's entirely social pressure and if you don't want to give a shit then you don't have to.

@EmberQuill nobody is forcing anyone to use internet either:food, water and air is enough. But we live with people who lean on degeneracy. A corrective action must be taken rather thsn “it is just xxx”

@ostream shut up bald cunt

How do we block trolls?

Just curious.

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Master/slave are perfect terms in the world of computing/programming. It can't be replaced with main/secondary nor main/not-main. All the woke people should simply shut up and stop forcing their idea on us.

@ostream you're strawmanning just a tiny little bit

His little mate... going somewhere else...? It's MY fucking rant, you dork! You two memelords hijacked it to spew insults at each other!

@ostream But who is behind all those books ? Corporation...

Can’t wait to see Master’s degree renamed too

To be fair but master is anyways a stupid name for a git branch, i have been changing it to production or development way before this bullshit became mainstream

@coldfire So why can't we just all agree that it is bullshit and everybody is free to use any name they want. It is just a tool for people. git doesn't care about all that stuff. And as far as I can see, most hammers are not white or pink. How about that ?

@Grumm Who's not free to name their branch master?

@iceb the woke-people make us feel bad if we name the branch master i guess ?

@Grumm I don't think that's true though. My company is as woke as it can be. Yet all of our branches are still called "master" Some woke ideology are extreme but it doesn't make sense to reject all progressive ideas because of a few outliers.

I don't think it's wrong for github to enforce what they believe is right. I mean it's their freedom to express their opinion as well. And they didn't take away anyones freedom to use "master" as their branch name.

Honestly, I'd say this is one of the times where the SJW didn't cross the line.

@iceb Not sure if it is correct to quote ChatGPT stuff. But here is a nice quote :

The question of terminology in specific software applications, such as "black/white" in Photoshop, is a topic of ongoing discussion and consideration within the design and technology communities. The aim is to ensure that language and terminology are inclusive and respectful, taking into account potential sensitivities and historical associations.

I don't care how digital features/structures are named. But it seems others think that stuff like that must be changed.

@Grumm yeah, and I believe american serial offenders being able to impose their own cultural dominance over the rest of the world (yesterday it expressed reactionary values, today it's expressing progressive values, tomorrow they will export something else yet again) is the problem. They did have slavery and racial segregation, I'm very much aware it was a bad thing, but I can't see why it should concern the rest of the world.