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

Re:GitHub to replace “master” with alternative term to avoid... by sand_castles on Sunday June 14, 2020 @11:49AM (#23518580)

Wait, git by default creates master branch.

So if you push master to Github, how is this going to work ?

Is it not better to make the changes to Git ?

Ask Linus Torvald in Finland.

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Re:GitHub to replace “master” with alternative term to avoid... by ironmagma on Monday June 15, 2020 @02:57AM (#23524538)

Git isn’t a great role model, however. It still uses the “blame” terminology which ascribes a needlessly negative and confrontational tone whenever you need to tell someone how you discovered the author of a line of code from your team’s codebase. This kind of vocabulary debt is something we should be paying off more of, more regularly, since it’s just as important — arguably more important — than functionality.

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Re:GitHub to replace “master” with alternative term to avoid... by kzrdude on Sunday June 14, 2020 @11:59AM (#23518713)

Ask Linus, who is in Oregon

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Re:GitHub to replace “master” with alternative term to avoid... by cs02rm0 on Sunday June 14, 2020 @11:56AM (#23518673)

That'd be a horrendous breaking change.

I'm assuming github are just going to alias it in the UI. I'd hate to have used both a master and a main branch before this.

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