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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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