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.
Re:Easily rename your Git default branch from master to main
by smitty1e on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @06:45AM
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It has become increasingly obvious that the Roman alphabet and English language must be replaced due to their overwhelming historical baggage.
Re:Easily rename your Git default branch from master to main
by Kednicma on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @11:02AM
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Replaced with what, though? Nobody talking about "slave" seems to notice that "servant" and "robot" have similar baggage despite different linguistic roots.
Re:Easily rename your Git default branch from master to main
by alwillis on Sunday June 14, 2020 @02:51AM
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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.
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.
https://github.com/search?q=head%3Aslave