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Re:Easily rename your Git default branch from master to main by alwillis on Saturday June 13, 2020 @07:04PM (#23513605)
seeing all the pushback to the “rename the master branch” movement is disheartening. if renaming the branch makes even one current or future employee (or even an open source contributor feel more welcome!), why push back so hard on this?

https://twitter.com/vaidehijoshi/status/1271555823139876864?...

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Re:Easily rename your Git default branch from master to main by Chyzwar on Monday June 15, 2020 @03:44AM (#23524858)
Because not all uses of "master" have negative connotations. I can support renaming master-slave, but git is not such case. There is pushback because it creates massive amount of work for us without a good reason.

All CI/CD pipelines, scripts, tools. Integration fixes, regressions and failed deployments because branch was main not master.

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Re:Easily rename your Git default branch from master to main by alwillis on Monday June 15, 2020 @11:06PM (#23535556)
Because not all uses of "master" have negative connotations. I can support renaming master-slave, but git is not such case.

Turns out that Git’s use of master decends from a use that is about master/slave: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2019-May/...

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Re:Easily rename your Git default branch from master to main by Chyzwar on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @04:49PM (#23543910)
Evidence you use come from Gnome mailing list where Gnome maintainers where discussing unrelated issue.
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