GitHub to replace “master” with alternative term to avoid slavery references

Re:GitHub to replace “master” with alternative term to avoid... by MichaelMoser123 on Sunday June 14, 2020 @11:46AM (#23518534)

how are we going to call the master branch in git?

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Re:GitHub to replace “master” with alternative term to avoid... by cs02rm0 on Sunday June 14, 2020 @11:58AM (#23518694)

In git? Master.

This is about Github.

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Re:GitHub to replace “master” with alternative term to avoid... by kaidon on Sunday June 14, 2020 @11:51AM (#23518594)

'trunk' should be fine. It is what I use to refer to the main/master branch when speaking in SCM-agnostic terms.

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Re:GitHub to replace “master” with alternative term to avoid... by a-saleh on Sunday June 14, 2020 @11:48AM (#23518564)

We call it `develop`.

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Re:GitHub to replace “master” with alternative term to avoid... by moosterv on Sunday June 14, 2020 @06:36PM (#23521983)

main? trunk? origin? so many possibilities!

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Re:GitHub to replace “master” with alternative term to avoid... by hawski on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @03:18AM (#23536699)

Origin already has a specific meaning in the git nomenclature.

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