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Re:GitHub to replace “master” with alternative term to avoid... by villasv on Sunday June 14, 2020 @12:53PM (#23519223)
This is such a low impact and harmless change. Even if someone is not to agree with it, why be against it?

It's not like a small team inside GitHub is going to deplete the world's activism budget and this will hinder the advance of other definitely more important changes.

I'm sure they will find a way to offer minimal impacts, specially because it's just a default value that can be easily configured.

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Re:GitHub to replace “master” with alternative term to avoid... by moosterv on Sunday June 14, 2020 @06:34PM (#23521956)
That's my thought as well. I'm willing to change the terms I use if it makes this industry even a little bit more inclusive.
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