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Re:Easily rename your Git default branch from master to main by DC-3 on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @12:55AM (#23474067)
I'm astonished anyone ever thought otherwise. Has anyone ever encountered a git branch called 'slave'?
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Re:Easily rename your Git default branch from master to main by JMTQp8lwXL on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @01:52AM (#23474362)
Here's roughly 4,000 instances of branch names containing 'slave' for you to peruse:

https://github.com/search?q=head%3Aslave

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Re:Easily rename your Git default branch from master to main by arp242 on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @02:20AM (#23474488)
There's a quite a few false positives in that list (e.g. a person named "slavek" always using his name in branch names), a few references to the "master/slave" analogy, and browsing the first few pages I keep seeing the same usernames over and over again (mostly from what seem to be non-native English speakers).

So the number seems much lower than 4000, and mostly the result from a very small group of people. I don't know how many branches there are in GitHub, but this seems like a very very small percentage.

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Re:Easily rename your Git default branch from master to main by smitty1e on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @06:45AM (#23475697)
It has become increasingly obvious that the Roman alphabet and English language must be replaced due to their overwhelming historical baggage.
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Re:Easily rename your Git default branch from master to main by Kednicma on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @11:02AM (#23477785)
Replaced with what, though? Nobody talking about "slave" seems to notice that "servant" and "robot" have similar baggage despite different linguistic roots.
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Re:Easily rename your Git default branch from master to main by alwillis on Sunday June 14, 2020 @02:51AM (#23515644)
Nobody talking about "slave" seems to notice that "servant" and "robot" have similar baggage despite different linguistic roots.

As I sometimes say, I've been Black my entire 50+ years on the planet. I've never met another Black person (or anyone regardless of their race or ethnicity) that felt that robot has “similar baggage” to the word slave.

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Re:Easily rename your Git default branch from master to main by rumanator on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @01:46PM (#23479915)
> Replaced with what, though?

With a glorious newspeak that greatly improves on the legacy language by simplifying the grammar and adding safety mechanisms to ensure all conversations are safe spaces.

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